A POEM FOR A SUNDAY: 11/24/24*

ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO and DAY IN AUTUMN by Rainer Maria Rilke

(Above: Rainer Maria Rilke with Auguste Rodin in Paris. Early 1900s. Rilke was Rodin’s secretary.)

Last night, knowing I would be in Vienna tonight, I pulled up some poems by Rilke because I know that he is claimed as an Austrian poet although he was born in Prague. That’s just about all I knew about him, however, other than he wrote sadly of loneli…