There is a beautiful door to the old Spanish Customs house across the bayou, it is a big, arched, metal door almost Arabic in its design. Just mysterious enough to always make me glance at it when I turn down Grand Route St. John. T gave me a card with a photograph of a similar door with a red bud blooming on the side of it, and on the back, a poem by Rilke:<\/p>\n
Pathways<\/p>\n
Understand, I’ll slip quietly
\naway from the noisy crowd
\nWhen I see the pale
\nstars rising, blooming, over the oaks.<\/p>\n
I’ll pursue solitary pathways
\nthrough the pale twilight meadows,
\nwith only this one dream:
\nYou come too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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