from an email from julie 4/20/06

Here's the poem that John Barrett picked out for Bruce...

j

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Rainer Maria Rilke

(translated by Robert Bly)



I live my life in growing orbits
which move out over the things of the world.
perhaps I can never achieve the last,
but that will be my attempt.

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower,
and I have been circling for a thousand years,
and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm,
or a great song.