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Understand, I am always trying to… what the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape and so, last week,
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…
“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
Fat, black, slick, galloping in the pitch of the waves, in the pearly fields of the sea,
In winter all the singing is in the tops of the trees where the wind-bird with its white eyes
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…
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your kn… for a hundred miles through the de… You only have to let the soft anim… love what it loves.
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
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.
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime.
Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light,
Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun,
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…
The first fish I ever caught would not lie down quiet in the pail but flailed and sucked
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…