Wednesday, October 19, 2011

"Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver


You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.


excerpt from Dream Work by Mary Oliver

[photo - view of New York and Massachusetts from the top of Haystack Mountain in Connecticut]

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