This poem is taken from Stand 243, 22(3) September - November 2024.

Rainer Maria Rilke Three Poems
Translated by John Greening
The Reader

Who knows him, this one with his lowered face
that’s sinking down to meet a second one,
and only that brisk shock of an explosion
as a page turns will sometimes break the peace?
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