Ryan Ram Malli’s Reviews > The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke > Status Update

"For gods do not entice. They have their being, / and nothing else: an overflow of being. / Not scent or gesture. Nothing is so mute / as a god’s mouth.”
-straining so hard against the strength of the night

Taking me a while to finish this because I keep going back to poems I already finished. I'm memorizing some lines. Making sure even the cuts are accounted for.