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A Poem for a Thursday #76
Photo by Cole Keister on Unsplash Louise Glück is an American poet and essayist. She has won many awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004. Her poems are described as emotionally intense and dark. You want to know how I spend my time? I walk the front lawn, pretending to be weeding. You ought to know I’m never weeding, on my knees, pulling clumps of clover from the flower beds: in fact I’m looking for courage, for some evidence my life will change, though it takes forever, checking each clump for the symbolic leaf, and soon the…
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A Visit to the James L. Goodwin State Forest
Thank goodness for fresh air, blue skies, and a bit of exercise. Last week my husband and I had to run an errand so on the way home we stopped at a state forest for a hike. It was lovely to be out of the house. Plus, after the last few weeks, it felt downright indulgent to go for a walk somewhere new and different. We have been to this state forest a few times before when we had first moved into the area but it has been years. That is probably because my main memory of the walk is being eaten alive by mosquitos. However, obviously there are no…
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A Poem for a Thursday #75
Photo by Martin Sepion on Unsplash It has been a while since I have featured a Mary Oliver poem. Her poems are some of my absolute favorites. I enjoy the way her words and the mental picture they create go together so perfectly. In this poem, she talks about just that. You don’t ever know where a sentence will take you, depending on its roll and fold. I was walking over the dunes when I saw the red fox asleep under the green branches of the pine. It flared up in the sweet order of its being, the tail that was over the muzzle lifting in airy amazement and the fire of the…
