Tom Perkinson (American,b.1940)

Night Storm Over the Mesa, 2022

Tom Perkinson (American, b. 1940)

Wild Horses at Sunset

Tom Perkinson

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Variation On A Theme By Rilke (The Book of Hours, Book I, Poem 1, Stanza 1)

A certain day became a presence to me; there it was, confronting me -- a sky, air, light: a being. And before it started to descend from the height of noon, it leaned over and struck my shoulder as if with the flat of a sword, granting me honor and a task. The day's blow rang out, metallic -- or it was I, a bell awakened, and what I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.