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Sea Storm, Mont Saint-Michel, France

photo via darkmoon

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Remembering

by Rainer Maria Rilke

And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful, exceptional, stones awakening, depths opening to you.

In the dusky bookstalls old books glimmer gold and brown. You think of lands you journeyed through, of paintings and a dress once worn by a woman you never found again.

And suddenly you know: that was enough. You rise and there appears before you in all its longings and hesitations the shape of what you lived.

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Charles Baudelaire, from Modern Poets of France: An Anthology; "Ruin,"

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Ota Janeček

(Czech, 1919–1996)

"Illustration (To The Children)", 1961.

Private Collection.

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Vincenzo Sguera

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The Pages You Loved

Foresee how dried, yellowed, with neglect, think

of the hands that made them, not with love, with certainty,

the leather smooth decades later, the pages warm as wood,

the thought reaching a seed that fell from a bird’s flight,

a hoof tucking it in folds of loam, wispy roots sending it deeper

into the dark, the thought like a hair in your throat.

Earth knows no such ambivalence, good to itself, mending,

dampening sends you to self- ignited forests, hordes fleeing,

blazes in what was there before mouths came to call them eyes,

fear and fire, how close the thought wanders into flood

and drought and motions attributed to a fist-sized heart.

All those rocked, senses quaked, those eyes flooding and welling

add up to a stone rolling down a mountainside

into salt water, the sum the size of a cloud or glacier thawed.

Shut the book, the thought writes itself like yeast;

seam the sky, a smoky tail, fastened by the measure of limitation.

And you the world’s watcher, moments at the mirror allowed as achievement,

the wisp of wheat (highlights) in the coffee of her hair,

the two of you hand in hand across a window display,

a clip from that day in Eden the short footage of days recalled—

all illuding fingers, hidden under the sheet’s grain.

-Khaled Mattawa

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L'amour l'après midi (1972)