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6/27/2019

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Softest of Mornings 
​by Mary Oliver 
​

Softest of mornings, hello.
And what will you do today, I wonder,
   to my heart?
And how much honey can the heart stand, I wonder,
   before it must break?

This is trivial, or nothing:  a snail
   climbing a trellis of leaves
     and the blue trumpets of flowers.

No doubt clocks are ticking loudly
   all over the world.
I don't hear them.  The snail's pale horns
   extend and wave this way and that
as her fingers-body shuffles forward, leaving behind
   the silvery path of her slime.

Oh, softest of mornings, how shall I break this?
How shall I move away from the snail, and the flowers?

How shall I go on, with my introspective and ambitious life?


from 
Long Life:  Essays and Other Writings (DaCapo Press)
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Amy link
6/29/2019 06:03:38 pm

"I don't hear them."

This is beautiful.

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