New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver

Author:Mary Oliver
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2010-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

1945–1985: Poem for the Anniversary

Sometimes,

walking for hours through the woods,

I don’t know what I’m looking for,

maybe for something

shy and beautiful to come

frisking out of the undergrowth.

Once a fawn did just that.

My dog didn’t know

what dogs usually do.

And the fawn didn’t know.

As for the doe, she was probably

down in Round Pond, swizzling up

the sweet marsh grass and dreaming

that everything was fine.

The way I’d like to go on living in this world

wouldn’t hurt anything, I’d just go on

walking uphill and downhill, looking around,

and so what if half the time I don’t know

what for—

so what if it doesn’t come

to a hill of beans—

so what if I vote liberal,

and am Jewish,

or Lutheran—

or a game warden—

or a bingo addict—

and smoke a pipe?

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