POEMS TO LIVE BY no. 4, Entrance, a poem by Rainer Maria RILKE

This is no. 4 of a new series of recordings I’m doing called, “POEMS TO LIVE BY.” It is raw, unedited, and made up at a basecamp while doing photography fieldwork. I’m sitting inside my tent, about five in the morning natural time, with a Northwest Coldfront wind ripping the northside of our planet’s new jetstream. It’s -3°C, with a very bad energy or Chi in the air. Think of that! Perfect conditions for pulling a poem out of our medicine bag to warm the heart! I talk about a Flicker, drumming on a tree nearby. A native invasive Robin doing its territorial “beating of the bounds” morning routine, and probably also wondering about how and why it is so darn cold. And, all the while, we do a little dialogue circle meditation on a new English translation of mine of the RILKE masterpiece, ENTRANCE. IMAGE: Wilderness Basecamp, doing whitebark pine photography in the Eagle Cap Wilderness, the middle of July.