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A Spring Morning Blessing

4/19/2011

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Softest of Mornings
by Mary Oliver


Softest of mornings, hello.
And what will you do today, I wonder, to my heart?
And how much honey can the heart stand, I wonder, before it must break?

This is trivial, or nothing: a snail
climbing a trellis of leaves
and the blue trumpet of its flowers.

No doubt clocks are ticking loudly all over the world.
I don’t hear them.  The snail’s pale horns
extend and wave this way and that
as her finger-body shuffles forward, leaving behind
the silvery path of her slime,

Oh, softest of mornings, how shall I break this?
How shall I move away from the snail, and the flowers?
How shall I go on, with my introspective and ambitious life?




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photo: John C. Ackers
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