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Poems by Mary Oliver

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When Death Comes

... an iceberg between the shoulder blades,I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: ...

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The Journey

... was terrible. It was already late ...

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A Meeting

... between breaths slack with exhaustionand after a while it rises and becomes a creature ...

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The Summer Day

... Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face ...

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Little Summer Poem Touching The Subject Of Faith

... I am deaf too to the tick of the leaves, the tapping of downwardness from the banyan feet -- ...

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Cold Poem

... of the blue shark cruising toward the tumbling seals ...

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Music

... or resists, must lie like a field of dark water under ...

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The Sun

... and is gone-- and how it slides again out of the blackness, ...

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The Chance To Love Everything

... It was gone. Then I whirled at the sound of some ...

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Next Time

... I'd stop just before going into a house ...

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Poem (The spirit likes to dress up...)

... it needs the metaphor of the body,lime and appetite, ...

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The Fish

... we feed this feverish plot, we are nourished ...

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Morning Poem

... to be happy you will swim away along the soft trailsfor hours, your imagination ...

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The Swan

... A shrill dark music - like the rain pelting the trees - like a waterfall ...

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Knife

... at least, dazzling whoever else has happened ...