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Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light,
Is the soul solid, like iron? Or is it tender and breakable, lik… the wings of a moth in the beak of… Who has it, and who doesn’t? I keep looking around me.
Did you too see it, drifting, all… Did you see it in the morning, ris… An armful of white blossoms, A perfect commotion of silk and li… into the bondage of its wings; a s…
All winter the water has crashed over the cold the cold sand. Now it breaks over the thin branch of your body.
“For example, what the trees do not only in lightning storms or the watery dark of a summer’s n… or under the white nets of winter but now, and now, and now—whenever
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice—
Understand, I am always trying to… what the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape and so, last week,
When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the… to buy me, and snaps the purse shu… when death comes
The river Of my childhood, That tumbled Down a passage of rocks And cut-work ferns,
My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hum… equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there t… Here the clam deep in the speckled…
Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over. It is heaven-sent. It flows through me like the blue wave.
Scatterghost, it can’t float away. And the rain, everybody’s brother, won’t help. And the wind all these… flying like ten crazy sisters ever…
Don’t call this world adorable, or… It’s frisky, and a theater for mor… The eyelash of lightning is neithe… The struck tree burns like a pilla… But the blue rain sinks, straight…
At Blackwater Pond the tossed wat… after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls…
Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun,