At a Coffee Table in London

Look, our cups are interpenetrating,
clinklessly ...

World quietly dissipating!

--

From "Vase Painting (The Banquet of the Dead"), 1922
(James Blair Leishman, Rainer Maria Rilke Poems, 1906-1926
Hogarth Press, 1957)

[Photo by Luis Lazaro Tijerina,
London Collection]