Thursday, December 6, 2018

RILKE IN THE LIBRARY


Neither a prophet nor a man possessed 
with eyes of wildfire and haywire hair, 
the quiet expert in the shadows there 
brings nothing new to feed your chic unrest.  

Beside gigantic fronds, half hidden by 
the outsized sofas of the Reading Room, 
a hunter stalks among the elephants. 
Unlike the bright birds and the beasts of prey, 
he does not swagger through the alien gloom 
with tribal arrogance, gauche elegance.  

His disappearance is the only hint 
of the movement of the mind behind it— 

A study by da Vinci, a sharks fin 
shearing the water as it zeroes in




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