Saturday, December 31, 2011

the flower of farewell

Homage to a great blog . . . with a perfect ending to the year:

A Year with Rilke

Somewhere the flower of farewell is blooming.
Endlessly it yields its pollen, which we breathe.
Even in the breeze of this beginning hour we breathe farewell.

  -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Uncollected Poems

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