Good morning from locked-down Los Angeles.
Roses
Everyone now and again wonders about
those questions that have no ready
answers: first cause, God's existence,
what happens when the curtain goes
down and nothing stops it, not kissing,
not going to the mall, not the Super
Bowl.
"Wild roses," I said to them one morning.
"Do you have the answers? And if you do,
would you tell me?"
The roses laughed softly. "Forgive us,"
they said. "But as you can see, we are
just now entirely busy being roses."
Everyone now and again wonders about
those questions that have no ready
answers: first cause, God's existence,
what happens when the curtain goes
down and nothing stops it, not kissing,
not going to the mall, not the Super
Bowl.
"Wild roses," I said to them one morning.
"Do you have the answers? And if you do,
would you tell me?"
The roses laughed softly. "Forgive us,"
they said. "But as you can see, we are
just now entirely busy being roses."
Mary Oliver
I get it. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThat's wonderful. Thank you. I sometimes think Mary Oliver is the answer to every question.
ReplyDeleteShe is the red velvet heart pincushion of poets.
ReplyDeleteAh. Perfect. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteSophie looks so alert and Mary Oliver is so right.
ReplyDeleteLove.
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