Just returned home from a wonderful trip to Glasgow where there seemed to be flowers everywhere we went…
at the Tramway’s beautiful hidden gardens
and the lovely Botanics
in Kibble Palace
to this – my new collection! Hooray! Spring is here!
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
Poem from The Book of Hours, Rilke
(Translated by Anita Burrows and Joanna Macy)
Images from Glasgow Botanic Gardens – Kibble Palace and Main Range Glasshouses
