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In winter all the singing is in the tops of the trees where the wind-bird with its white eyes
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime.
Don’t bother me. I’ve just been born. The butterfly’s loping flight carries it through the country of…
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 spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all the rest
All winter the water has crashed over the cold the cold sand. Now it breaks over the thin branch of your body.
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…
The river Of my childhood, That tumbled Down a passage of rocks And cut-work ferns,
Needing one, I invented her— the great-great-aunt dark as hicko… called Shining-Leaf, or Drifting… or The-Beauty-of-the-Night. Dear aunt, I’d call into the leav…
Meditation is old and honorable, s… not sit, every morning of my life,… looking into the shining world? Be… attended to, delight, as well as h… Can one be passionate about the ju…
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her poc… full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone o…
Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun,
Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories,
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…
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black b… Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean– the one who has flung herself out…