[New-Poetry] Hermes

[jforjames at aol.com]

But far off, darkly before the bright exit,
stood someone or other, whose features
were unrecognisable. Who stood and saw
how on the strip of path between meadows,
with mournful look, the god of messages
turned, silently, to follow the figure
already walking back by that same path,
her steps confined by the long grave-cloths,
uncertain, gentle, and without impatience.

Ranier Maria Rilke 
Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.
(Tr. Tony Kline)

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