[New-Poetry] emailing Mary Oliver

[Anny Ballardini]

This is exceptional writing:

At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled
after a night of rain.
I dip my cupped hands. I drink
a long time. It tastes
like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold
into my body, waking the bones. I hear them
deep inside me, whispering
oh what is that beautiful thing
that just happened?

I just uploaded the Deer by Franz Marc on my blog:
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 1:30 PM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:

> This is in today's NY Times list of the most e-mailed articles:
>
> http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/travel/05oliver.html?em
>
>
>  The Land and Words of Mary Oliver, the Bard of Provincetown
>
>
> BY half-past 5 on a morning in early May, the sun rising over Blackwater
> Pond had already brightened the pine woods. I stood in a wide natural path,
> carpeted with brown-red needles, that rises up the forested dune from the
> southwest side of the pond. In the high branches of the pines and beeches
> and honeysuckles, the birds were carrying on their racket — warblers,
> goldfinches, woodpeckers, doves and chickadees. But on the sandy ground
> among the trunks, nothing moved. Perfect stillness. Could this have been
> where Mary Oliver had seen the deer?
>
> --
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>
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