Patti Smith, The Melting 11
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear
without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Barrows, Anita. Rilke's Book of Hours (pp. 51-52). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear
without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Barrows, Anita. Rilke's Book of Hours (pp. 51-52). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
2:25
Stop wearing out your shoes.
Raphael Sadeler I
Allegory of Gluttony, Wealth, Lust, and Stupidity, 1588
Engraving
Red
John Coburn
Phoenix, 1971
Gouache on paper
Physical, solitary, silent
“The best rituals are physical, solitary, and silent: These are the ones that register most deeply with the unconscious.”
Robert Johnson - Inner Work
©Buck Melville — Los Angeles