Tag Archives: Mary Oliver

Pinned Against Time – The Show-and-Tell Poetry of Ellen Bass

December 27, 2013 – 7:09 pm

If You Knew What if you knew you’d be the last to touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at the theatre, tearing them giving back the ragged stubs, you might take care to touch that palm or press your fingertips into the life line’s crease.  When a man pulls his wheeled suitcase too […]

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Grief-struck Remedies – Poems on Sorrow and Grief

June 14, 2013 – 3:23 pm

A merganser is clucking in front of me in a little bay near our cabin on Cortes Island, B.C. I call it clucking but it sounds also like little honks. So much my ear and mouth cannot translate. Oh! This untranslatable world. Even a wing. A prayer. These mysteries that take flight- impossible the realities […]

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An Alphabet of Poets – Z is for Zagajewski

June 3, 2012 – 10:45 pm

Try to Praise the Mutilated World Try to praise the mutilated world Remember June’s long days And wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that methodically overgrow The abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the mutilated world – You watched the stylish yachts and ships; One of them had a long trip […]

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