For Hans Carossa

Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting
still has a shape in the kindgdom of transformation.
When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are
rarely the center
of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous
curve.

Translated by Stephen Mitchell

poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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