TRAJECTORIES, Mountain Water & RILKE'S [THE SCALES]

TRAJECTORIES, Mountain Water, Eagle Cap Wilderness,
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[THE SCALES]—a late, uncollected poem from
the German by Rainer Maria Rilke

Inconstant scales of Life,
always vacillating, how rarely
does a facile weight dare
announce itself to the soon vanishing
opposite load.

But above it, the peaceful
scales of Death.
Space enough on both
of the kindred bowls.
Equal space. And beside it,
unused,
all the weights of Equanimity,
shining, in ordered rows.

Rainer Maria Rilke
(uncollected, 1924)
(tr. Cliff Crego)

Unstete Waage des Lebens
immer schwankend, wie selten
wagt ein geschicktes Gewicht
anzusagen, die immerfort andre
Last gegenüber.

Drüben, die ruhige
Waage des Todes.
Raum auf den beiden
verschwisterten Schalen.
Gleichviel Raum. Und daneben,
ungebraucht,
alle Gewichte des Gleichmuts,
glänzen, geordnet.

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