West Wind by Mary Oliver

Author:Mary Oliver [Oliver, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Poetry, Adult
ISBN: 9780395850855
Publisher: HMH Books
Published: 1997-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Clouds rolled

from the west—

then they thickened,

then thunder

bucked and boiled

toward the blown woods—

then lightning

slammed down

and opened the tree—

the way a tooth

would open a flower.

I fell down

in the steaming grass,

in the moss,

in the slow things

I was used to

while the branches snapped,

while they shrieked,

while the tree

spat out its solid heart

all over the ground.

Often enough,

even in easy summer,

I think of death—

how it is known to come

by dark, godforsaken inches.

And then I remember

the wheels of the wind,

the heels of the clouds—

the kick of the gold.

What do I hope for

from brother death?

May there be no quibbling.

Like the god that he is

may he slide to the ground

on his golden dial;

and there I will be,

for one last moment,

broken but burning,

like a golden tree.

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