We find Rilke facing south on the silent side
of the St Romanus castle church, away from the tended family graves of those who lived decades longer than him. His has a rose, yes, but also a dead stick, weeds rife. Perhaps that suits the poet wondering about his place in the world, sculpting words from clouds and whispers, the dynamics of near death. I think of those wild weeks in February, 1922, Orpheus singing in wildly strung winds, the ghost of Wera dancing in snowy whirls Eurydice’s frozen cliff face beside the Rhone, that constant glacial urging of his angels and the mountains above, parting seas of clouds, then sinking back into your questions. Where better to demand a definition of life. In the castle museum, the curator is keen to assure me that five francs is worth the visit, even with one room to you, all in German. I’m glad to visit, to see your face, those sad searching eyes that looked out of towers, seeing this valley as the art of light incarnate, finding spaces between being and not being, the angel and beast, the visible and invisible. Published in Panopylzine, January 2022 Editor's Choice in Panopylzine, February 2022
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Poetry Biography:I have had over 70 poems published in the following worldwide magazines and literary journals: A Handful of Stones, Acta Victoriana (Canada), All the Sins (UK), The Amethyst Review (USA), Amsterdam Quarterly (NL) The Blue Nib (Ireland), Bolts of Silk, Borderless Journal, The Brasilia Review (Brazil), Bushfire Literature & Arts Review (US), Cadenza, Cake Magazine, Carillon, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), DASH (USA), Clackamas Literary Review (USA), Cooch Behar Anthology, Dawntreader, Dreamcatcher, The Dillydoun Review, Earth Love, The Ear (US), Eastlit (East Asia), Erbacce, Envoi, Finger Dance Festival, Ginosko, Gloom Cupboard, Hidden Channel, Inlandia Journal, IS&T (Ink, Sweat & Tears), Into the Void (Canada), The Journal, The Lakeview Journal (India), Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Lunch Ticket (USA) The New Writer, One Hand Clapping, Orbis, Oregon English Journal (USA), The Passage Between, Prole, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Sonic Boom (India), Third Wednesday (USA), Of Nepalese Clay (Nepal), New Contrast (South Africa), One Hand Clapping, Opportunity Publishing, The Oregon English Journal (USA) Origami Poems Project (USA), The Paddock Review (USA), Panoplyzine (USA), Paper Swan Press, The Passage Between, The Peacock Journal (USA), Pens on Fire, Poetry Salzburg (Austria), Potomac Review, (USA) Prole, Pulsar Poetry, Rear View Poetry, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Qutub Minar Review (India), Red Ink, Shiela-Na-Gig (USA), South Bank Poetry Magazine, Stand, Waterford Teachers Centre, (Ireland) We Are a Website New Literary Journal (Singapore), Weber - The Contemporary West Review (USA), Windfall (USA), Writing Magazine, Words for the Wild and Verbal Art (India). Archives
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