Screaming and crying...

[Mark Kohut]

Robin shouted out:
Okay German listers: is "schriee" scream or cry? 'Cause it sounds like "Who, if I screamed. . ." to me. Educate me.

I could not wait for our German friends to get back on the list......so, here's Babelfish:

GR: " Ein Schreien stößt auf das Sky" zufällig; 

Rilke: Wer, wenn Ich schriee
 
YES!............That compact allusive resonance from the opening line.....
 
The man's a poet in the fullest-length poems since Milton---and beyond..................