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Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver

Author:Mary Oliver [Oliver Mary] , Date: November 19, 2014 ,Views: 303

Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver

Author:Mary Oliver [Oliver Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: nepalifiction, TPB
ISBN: 978-0-8070-9682-6
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2003-11-18T18:15:00+00:00


The Kookaburras

In every heart there is a coward and a procrastinator.

In every heart there is a god of flowers, just waiting

to come out of its cloud and lift its wings.

The kookaburras, kingfishers, pressed against the edge of

their cage, they asked me to open the door.

Years later I wake in the night and remember how I said to them,

no, and walked away.

They had the brown eyes of soft-hearted dogs.

They didn’t want to do anything so extraordinary, only to fly

home to their river.

By now I suppose the great darkness has covered them.

As for myself, I am not yet a god of even the palest flowers.

Nothing else has changed either.

Someone tosses their white bones to the dung-heap.

The sun shines on the latch of their cage.

I lie in the dark, my heart pounding.



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