Illusion

Where is for this inside an outside? On what woe lays one such linen? What sky is reflected inside the landlocked lake of these open roses, these careless roses, look:

how loose they in looseness lie, as could no trembling hand upset them ever.

They can barely keep themselves together; many let themselves go, let their innerspaces overflow and flow over into the days, which fuller and fuller glut themselves shut,

until every part of summer a room becomes, a room in a dream.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Rosen-Innern (1908)