A Poet Reflects

January 14, 2013 with 401 notes
        tags: Mary Oliver. Thrist. Praying.

Praying

It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.

—Mary Oliver, from Thrist (Beacon Press, 2006)

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