We of this Fury: December 2009

29 December 2009

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18 December 2009

We of this fury.
How are we supposed to look, we humans?

To Be

do you realize
it was as if they had never met.
rather, they had never met,
but perhaps it was as if they had always loved,
known one another?
Did Adam have any knowledge
that God took his rib?
Did the woman sing her first words?

Mindful--Mary Oliver

Every day
I see or hear
something
that more or less

kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle

in the haystack
of light.
It was what I was born for -
to look, to listen,

to lose myself
inside this soft world -
to instruct myself
over and over

in joy,
and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional,

the fearful, the dreadful,
the very extravagant -
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab,

the daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar,
I say to myself,
how can you help

but grow wise
with such teachings
as these -
the untrimmable light

of the world,
the ocean's shine,
the prayers that are made
out of grass?