Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

Author:Mary Oliver [Oliver, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Poetry, General
ISBN: 9780399563249
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2017-10-09T23:00:00+00:00

Who can open the door who does not reach for the latch?

Who can travel the miles who does not put one foot

in front of the other, all attentive to what presents itself

continually?

Who will behold the inner chamber who has not observed

with admiration, even with rapture, the outer stone?

Well, there is time left—

fields everywhere invite you into them.

And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away

from wherever you are, to look for your soul?

Quickly, then, get up, put on your coat, leave your desk!

To put one’s foot into the door of the grass, which is

the mystery, which is death as well as life, and

not be afraid!

To set one’s foot in the door of death, and be overcome

with amazement!

To sit down in front of the weeds, and imagine

god the ten-fingered, sailing out of his house of straw,

nodding this way and that way, to the flowers of the

present hour,

to the song falling out of the mockingbird’s pink mouth,

to the tiplets of the honeysuckle, that have opened

in the night

To sit down, like a weed among weeds, and rustle in the wind!

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