●making a world, from the reading rilke series
making a world, 24x24 oil on canvas, 2010 sharon kingston SOLD
Whoever you may be, step into the evening
Step out of the room where everything is known
Whoever you are
your house is the last before the far off
With your eyes, which are almost
too tired to free themselves from the familiar
You slowly take one black tree
and set it against the sky
slender, alone.
And you have made a world.
It is big
and like a word, still ripening in silence
And though your mind would fabricate its meaning
Your eyes tenderly let go of what they see.
Rainer Maria Rilke translation by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
