●distance between, from the reading rilke series
, distance between, 24x30 in, oil on canvas 2010 Sharon Kingston SOLD
Between the stars, such distances; and yet, how much vasterare the distances we learn of here.
Take a child perhaps...and next to him, another---,
O how ineffably far.
Could it be that Fate measures us in spans of being.
and hence seems to us so alien?
Think how many such spans stretch from a woman
to the man she longs for and avoids.
All is distance--, and nowhere does the circle close.
Sonnets to Orpheus, II 20
Rainer Maria Rilke
translation by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
