go out into your heart

the immense loneliness begins
Gouache and watercolor on paper, 2009

“You are not surprised at the force of the storm–
You have seen it growing
…

Now you must go out into your heart
as onto a vast plain. Now
the immense loneliness begins
…
The days go numb, the wind
sucks the world from your senses like withered leaves.

Through the empty branches the sky remains.
It is what you have…”

– Rilke’s Book of Hours II,1

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