As On Unheard Wings...

Silent friend of many distances, feel

how your breath is still increasing space.

...

~ Text: Ranier Maria Rilke

~ Image: Film still from The White Owl, 1922, from the Secrets of Nature film series

Small Pale Messages from the World...

Slowly night comes.

Moths settle down on the pane:

small pale messages from the world.

...

~ Images: stills from Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly; photographed by Sven Nykvist; beautiful sound and music by Bach, birds, whispers, water, and foghorns.

~ Title of post from Tranströmer in Three Swedish Poets, Seventies Press, 1970