sequels to accretion

Raoul Dufy, "La Fée Electricité." 1937.

"VI" by Rainer Maria Rilke

from Sonnets to Orpheus

Is he someone who dwells in this single world? No:
both realms are the source of his earthly power.

He alone who has known the roots of the willow
can bend the willow-branch into a lyre.

Overnight leave no bread on the table

and leave no milk: they draw back the dead--.
But he, the conjuror, may he settle
under the calm of the eye's lowered lid

to mix death into everything seen;

and may the magic of earthsmoke and rue

be as real to him as the clearest connection.

Nothing can trouble the dominance of
the true image. Whether from graces or from rooms,

let him praise the finger-ring, bracelet, and jug.