Mary Oliver - Sleeping in the Forest

Mary Oliver - Sleeping in the Forest

I thought the earth remembered me, br she took me back so tenderly, br arranging her dark skirts, her pockets br full of lichens and seeds. br I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, br nothing between me and the white fire of the stars br but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths br among the branches of the perfect trees. br All night I heard the small kingdoms br breathing around me, the insects, br and the birds who do their work in the darkness. br All night I rose and fell, as if in water, br grappling with a luminous doom. By morning br I had vanished at least a dozen times br into something better.


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Uploaded: 2014-11-07

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