The long path home

Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke translated to English by Stephen Mitchell and read by David Smith whitely “her simple and unselfcentered Mary-life” “some evening take a step out of your house” Orpheus Eurydice Hermes hiking stick archaic torso of Apollo Buddha in Glory again again for the sake of a single poem how to write poetry “to partings you had long seen coming” childhood “time in school drags along with so much worry, and waiting, things so dumb and stupid” going where?