Felicity by Mary Oliver

Author:Mary Oliver
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

Humility

Poems arrive ready to begin.

Poets are only the transportation.

For Tom Shaw S.S.J.E. (1945–2014)

Where has this cold come from?

“It comes from the death of your friend.”

Will I always, from now on, be this cold?

“No, it will diminish. But always

it will be with you.”

What is the reason for it?

“Wasn’t your friendship always as beautiful

as a flame?”

That Tall Distance

That tall distance where

the clouds begin,

the forge that pounds out the lightning

and the black porch where the stars

are dressed in light

and arrangement is made for the moon’s path—

it’s these I think of now, after

a lifetime of goldfinches,

meandering streams,

lambs playing,

the passionate hands of the sun,

the coolness under the trees

talking leaf to leaf,

the foxes and the otters sliding on the snow,

the dolphins for whom no doubt

the seas were created,

the spray of swallows gathering in autumn—

after all of that

the tall distance is what I think of now.

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