A Falling Down Carelessly That Forms the Heavens…

That relentless self-condensing of a music continually seeking to evaporate. Consummator of the world: as that which falls down in the rain over the earth and upon the waters, falling down carelessly, falling haphazard – rises again out of all things, more invisible, and joyous in its law, and ascends and floats and forms the heavens: so the ascent of our precipitations rose out of you and domed the world about with music…

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~ Text: Rilke’s Notebooks of Malte Laurid Brigge

~ Images: Emmet Gowin - Conner Pass, Ireland; Magdalena, New Mexico; Toutle River Valley

A Domain of Movements...

Charles Emile Jacque, Paysage, 1848

The swifts turn in the heights of air,
yet higher unseen stars are turning.

So we live in a domain of movements
and distances; so the heart
goes from tree to bird, from bird to distant stars,
from the star to its love…

~ Fragment from Jaccottet’s Seedtime that was never included in the only English translation.

The Tree of Dreams Murmurs as it Sleeps...

Then we become little by little this foliage
That endlessly whispers and perhaps travels
With our sleep which it takes in and leads right
To where roots plunge, the very depths,
Where the top of small branches wanders under the wind.
We sleep, the tree keeps watch, it listens to the words
The dark tree of dreams murmurs as it sleeps.

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~ Text: From “The Second Room” in Return to Calm, poems by Jaques Réda

~ Image: Pommier, Atget, 1922 (thank you m. swiezynski)