"Moving Forward," Rainer Maria Rilke




                                               The deep parts of my life pour onward,

                                               as if the river shores were opening out.

                                               It seems that things are more like me now,

                                               that I can see farther into paintings.

                                               I feel closer to what language can't reach.

                                               With my senses, as with birds, I climb

                                               into the windy heaven, out of the oak,

                                               and in the ponds broken off from the sky

                                               my feeling sinks, as if standing on fishes.