●essence of a thing, from the reading rilke series
essence of a thing, 30x40 oil on canvas 2010 Sharon Kingston SOLD
The space within us reaches out, translates each thing.
For the essence of a tree to be real for you,
cast inner space around it, out of the space
that exists in you. Encircle it with restraint.
It has no borders. Only in the realm
of your renouncing can it, as tree, be known.
Uncollected Poems
Rainer Maria Rilke
translation by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
