How to make a Kawasaki
rose flower
(budding & half-bloom: page 36)
69.
If the bottom is too flat, we can insert a finger between legs to make swollen up a little.
70.
The bottom is no longer flat.
For Hans Carossa
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.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Origami Rose Paper Flower, Budding & Half-Bloom Kawasaki Rose
