A Year's Risings with Mary Oliver

It didn't behave like anything you had ever imagined. The wind tore at the trees, the rain fell for days slant an...

As long as you're dancing, you can    break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just    extending the rules. ...

Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about. Which is why we have songs of praise, songs of love, songs of sorrow. ...

  Great White Heron (photo by William Majaros) This morning the beautiful white heron was floating along above the water ...

He was lying under a tree, licking up the shade,  Hello again, Fox, I said.   And hello to you too, said Fox, looking up and not bo...

There are lots of ways to dance and to spin, sometimes it just starts my feet first then my entire body, I am spinning no one can see it ...

For a while I could not remember some word I was in need of, and I was bereaved and said: where are you, beloved friend? ...