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Thursday, May 4, 2023

Poem: Mary Oliver, "Moss" in New and Selected Poems

What a wild family! Fox and giraffe and wart hog, of course. But these also: bodies like tiny strings, bodies like blades and blossoms! Cord grass, Christmas fern, soldier moss! And here comes grasshopper, all toes and knees and eyes, over the little mountains of dust.

When I see the black cricket in the woodpile, in autumn, I don't frighten her. And when I see the moss grazing upon the rock, I touch her tenderly,

sweet cousin.

1 comment:

  1. The artist -poets open our eyes to paying attention to our interconnectedness & to all our relations!!

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