#one or two things

[mournfulroses]

Mary Oliver, from New & Selected Poems of Mary Oliver; "One or Two Things,"

[hiyutekivigil]

one or two things, mary oliver

[6peaches]

Mary Oliver - One Or Two Things

1 Don't bother me I've just been born.

2 The butterfly's loping flight carries it through the country of the leaves delicately, and well enough to get it where it wants to go, wherever that is, stopping here and there to fuzzle the damp throats of flowers and the black mud; up and down it swings, frenzied and aimless; and sometimes

for long delicious moments it is perfectly lazy, riding motionless in the breeze of the soft stalk of some ordinary flower

3 The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things; I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, crow voice, frog voice; now he said, and now,

and never once mentioned forever,

4 which has nevertheless always been, like a sharp iron hoof, at the center of my mind.

5 One or two things are all you need to travel over the blue pond, over the deep roughage of the trees and through the stiff flowers of lightning --- some deep memory of pleasure, some cutting knowledge of pain.

6 But to lift the hoof! For that you need an idea.

7 For years and years I struggled just to love my life. And then

the butterfly rose, weightless, in the wind. "Don't love your life too much," it said,

and vanished into the world.

[anxsity]

Mary Oliver, "One or Two Things"

[zelkams-art]

in all timelines in all possibilities only you can show me this

[dramatic-dolphin]

when we were studying the bible in literature class (so we have the context necessary for later works that reference the bible), i think we were at the book of jonah, and one of my classmates was studying the text very intently, and then looked up and earnestly said "professor, i don't understand the will of god"

the teacher was just like. well sadly i am a literature teacher and not a priest so i can't help you there. but if it helps, many people throughout history had the same problem.

[beebfreeb]

An Interview with Dot.

[eydilily]

gem n joel the strongest duo (family) that you are

and of course. her

[dorothywonderland]

Is it considered plagiarism if you're copying your own comic?

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[nipuni]

🥰 these two

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

[proxythe]

surrounded by my love through all eternity

[aridatinas-art]

something something ... Stanford "Why didn't Rudolf just kill the other reindeer?" Pines and Fiddleford "I create death-mechas when my feelings get hurt" McGucket

[hinamie]

inflict

[emzurl]

Stolitz cuddles 🥹

[creekfiend]

something that drives me insane on a relatively regular basis as a body jewelry understander is talking to people who have sensitive skin who are like "oh well I just can't wear any earrings without my ears getting inflamed" and I say "well what have you tried" and they say "well I've tried sterling silver and I've tried gold..." and it's like. ok. I don't know how gold and sterling somehow got spun by the jewelry industry as being especially good for sensitive skin but whenever I'm like "well have you tried implant grade titanium" they're always like "no....... but I've tried sterling silver... and it didn't work ..." like. I don't know how this narrative about sterling silver somehow got so strong but when they put pins in your fucking legs when you snap your leg in half are those pins made of sterling silver or are they made of implant grade titanium or surgical steel????????? HELLO. HI. YOU MIGHT BENEFIT FROM TRYING IMPLANT GRADE TITANIUM I AM JUST SAYING