For Hans Carossa
loss
transformation
free verse
serene
reflective
Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kindgdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve.
For Hans Carossa - fact Summary
Dedicated to Hans Carossa
This short poem is dedicated to the German writer Hans Carossa, signaling a personal or admiring link between Rilke and its addressee. It presents loss and forgetting not as emptiness but as active parts of transformation, suggesting that what we release continues in a circling motion. The image of a curve that encircles us implies continuity and an indirect presence rather than direct possession.
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