Death Intimacy Poems

This is my translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's second elegy from his Duino Elegies, which he began composing at Duino Castle in 1912. 

Second Elegy
by...

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Epigrams by Michael R. Burch



Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
 
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...



Negotiables
by Michael...

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I used to Kiss you on your Holy head,
There blossomed the soap scent of your shampoo!
'I kister BRAIN!' I used to say -- no dread!
That...

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Intimacy...
is a message distinctly conveyed,
one knowing set of eyes to 
another, without a word
ever passing the lips. 

Intimacy...
is the aromatic blossom of spring
and luscious fruit...

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Love, now
With the end nearing
Of this dated form
Called mine,
You increase! (Your blessed
Virus taking firmer hold);

Ah! If all the countless
Ails of this world were
So dear…and the...

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I stand here silent there before you…. your tears, they mean nothing to me….



It seems as though you fear me…taking your life…?

Your life is so...

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