April 18 - Nature is impossible

Author: Mary Diamond
Location: Midwest

Goddess Face

MINDFUL by Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems
Volume Two

Every day I see
or hear something
that more or less

kills me with delight,
that leaves me like a needle

in the haystack of light
It is what I was born for - to look, to listen,

to lose myself inside this soft world
- to instruct myself over and over

in joy, and acclamation.
Nor am I talking about the exceptional,

the fearful, the dreadful, the very extravagant
- but of the ordinary, the common, the very drab,

the daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar, I say to myself,
how can you help

but grow wise with such teachings as these
- the untrimmable light

of the world, the ocean's shine,
the prayers that are made
out of grass.