If You Say It Right It Helps The Heart To Bear It

from Evidence, by Mary Oliver


The comforts
of language
are true
and deep


in a cemetery
in the South,
so many stones
and so many

so small
Sometimes
three or four
in a row.




In this instance:
Eliza May,
Occola,
Joseph.




Can you imagine
the condition
of the heart
of a mother
or a father
watching these plantings?
I cannot.
But I try.




"God taketh
his young lambs home"
is carved there.
A few words




like water
on a stone.
Cool and beautiful
like water on a stone.


for Jayla

Logos

Sometimes I open a book of poems and see what I am given.


Today I opened Why I Wake Early, by Mary Oliver, and was given this:

Logos

Why worry about the loaves and fishes?
If you say the right words, the wine expands.
If you say them with love
and the felt ferocity of that love
and the felt necessity of that love,
the fish explode into many.
Imagine him, speaking,
and don’t worry about what is reality,
or what is plain, or what is mysterious.
If you were there, it was all those things.
If you can imagine it, it is all those things.
Eat, drink, be happy.
Accept the miracle.
Accept, too, each spoken word
spoken with love. 

Lambert Love

I heart Mary Lambert.

Li li li. Li li li li li li li.

Still, a man hears what he wants to hear. And disregards the rest.


--Paully and Art

Number 26

I found this leetle book at a garage sale called Living the Simple Life.  The book, that is.  The garage sale could have been titled, "Selling all my shtuff so I can try to live the simple life here do you need some VHS tapes and old ski boots how about a wicker bird cage?"


The leetle book is  by Elaine St. James and it chronicles tiny steps she took to get to a more simplified version of now. 


Number 26 is titled The Need To Make Wise Choices:


Since we have time for only a limited amount of stuff, we need to choose wisely what stuff we're going to allow to take up that time.  Since we only have a limited amount of time to spend or engage in leisure activities, we need to choose our friends and activities wisely.

Newton's Third Law

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.


This concludes our physics lesson for today.   

Natural Infinite Yes

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes


(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)


how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any–lifted from the no
of all nothing–human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?


(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)


---e.e. cummings, i thank You God for this most amazing