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Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light,
I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is
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…
Scatterghost, it can’t float away. And the rain, everybody’s brother, won’t help. And the wind all these… flying like ten crazy sisters ever…
She steps into the dark swamp where the long wait ends. The secret slippery package drops to the weeds. She leans her long neck and tongue…
The river Of my childhood, That tumbled Down a passage of rocks And cut-work ferns,
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…
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime.
Understand, I am always trying to… what the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape and so, last week,
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…
Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of 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,
All winter the water has crashed over the cold the cold sand. Now it breaks over the thin branch of your body.
There is, all around us, this country of original fire. You know what I mean. The sky, after all, stops at nothi…
From a single grain they have mult… When you look in the eyes of one you have seen them all. At the edges of highways they pick at limp things.