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Don’t bother me. I’ve just been born. The butterfly’s loping flight carries it through the country of…
When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the bramb… nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching
Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun
Last night in the fields I lay down in the darkness to think about death, but instead I fell asleep,
Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun,
Fat, black, slick, galloping in the pitch of the waves, in the pearly fields of the sea,
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…
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…
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,
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.
“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
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…
Understand, I am always trying to… what the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape and so, last week,
There is, all around us, this country of original fire. You know what I mean. The sky, after all, stops at nothi…
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…