Status Updates From Duino Elegies

Que poemas densos, Jesus. Quero conseguir terminar mas é tudo muito denso, muito difícil de ler.

Doideira

Dug #6 and am scared of #8

I’m trying to read the poems in German before I read them in English, and I’m both finding it challenging (more than anticipated), and finding that I actually am able to make meaning out of the German that I don’t get from the translation, and therefore that this is a helpful and deep process for me. It required a higher attention, which is something I’ve been valuing recently. First elegy read