●space to breathe, from the reading rilke series
space to breathe, 48 x 60 in, oil on canvas 2010 Sharon Kingston SOLD
Silent friend of the many distances, feel how your every breath enlarges space. Amid the rafters of dark belfries let yourself peal. Whatever feeds on you is taking strength from such fare. Know every path through transformation. That one experience at the core of your sorrow? If drinking is bitter, become wine. Now in this night of fire and excess be magic power at your senses' crossroads, the meaning of their strange encounter. And if the earthly should forget you, say to the silent loam: I flow. To the rushing water speak: I am. Sonnets to Orpheus, Part 2, 29 Rainer Maria Rilke translation by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
