AUTUMNAL 1 (In Memory of Rainer Maria Rilke)
“O lost, and by the wind grieved, Ghost, come back again.” Thomas Wolfe
These leaves,
they all fall down;
are falling down
with the sound of falling leaves
they fall, silent, to the ground.
And all are falling;
this hand, too, it falls:
it falls upon the page.
upon the word.
upon the stone.
upon the leaf.
upon the door.
It falls;
and having fallen,
falls no more.