| | ...I don't know exactly what a prayer is. | | I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down | | into the grass, how to kneel in the grass, | | how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields | | which is what I have been doing all day. | | Tell me, what else should I have done? | | Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? |
Tell me, what is it you plan to do | With your one wild and precious life?
~Mary Oliver
(excerpt from "The Summer Day") |
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(c) Mary Oliver 1992
photo: (c) bruce Behnke 2021
