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For this session we close-read, together, the poem Evening by Rainer Maria Rilke and the painting The Charcoal Burner’s Hut by Théodore Rousseau, both posted below.

Our prompt for this session was: “Write about light meeting dark.” 

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Evening
By Rainer Maria Rilke
 
The sky puts on the dark blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,
one journeying to heaven, one that falls;

and leave you, not at home either one,
not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion
of what becomes a star each night, and rises:

and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)
your life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in you and star.