Messages dwell within words
like shadows inside dimly lit houses.
How did Rilke envision Innerweltraum?
What does Nietzsche mean by will?
No matter how we flood the night
darkness builds a nest beneath the eaves
and draws us inward. Otherwise
we might never have opened the door
or dug the foundation
or shaped the bricks to build the house,
abandoned now
to the immaculate webs of spiders.