House of Light by Mary Oliver

Author:Mary Oliver [Oliver, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
Tags: nepalifiction, TPB
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE NOTEBOOK

“Six a.m.—

the small, pond turtle

lifts its head

into the air

like a green toe.

It looks around.

What it sees

is the whole world

swirling back from darkness:

a red sun

rising over the water,

over the pines,

and the wind lifting,

and the water-striders heading out,

and the white lilies

opening their happy bodies.

The turtle

doesn’t have a word for any of it—

the silky water

or the enormous blue morning,

or the curious affair of his own body.

On the shore

I’m so busy

scribbling and crossing out

I almost miss seeing him

paddle away

through the wet, black forest.

More and more the moments come to me:

how much can the right word do?

Now a few of the lilies

are a faint flamingo inside

their white hearts,

and there is still time

to let the last roses of the sunrise

float down

into my uplifted eyes.”

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