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EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

Duino Elegies–Ranier Maria Rilke

If We Fail This Time

If We Fail This Time

November 21, 2016 Jerry King Comments 0 Comment

IMAGINING WORLDangel1

In my dream,
the angel shrugged
and said if we fail this
time it will be a
failure of imagination

and then she
placed the world
gently in the
palm of my hand.

–by Brian Andreas 1994

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