RAINER MARIA RILKE
[Because someone once wanted you . . . ]
(translation by Robert Fernandez)
Because someone once wanted you,Â
I know we can want you.Â
Because someone once wanted you,Â
I know we can want you.Â
A jellyfish floats the ocean hallway
like a plastic bag
Like any good son, I stole
mother’s
insomnia when she delivered me
I sell tickets for magicians and mimes,
I stand by the entrance with the key like Peter.
does draw a blues a curtain along
a greenfleshed ash
What summoned the small thing? Dark
light surrounded us, the wretched
Metaphor has been stolen from the poet.
It was the mouthlark, I mean it was morning
i told the nishinaabe parliamentarian
tasting of pine, clear
breath of it