Saturday, June 4, 2022

Three Things


Martin Johnson Heade - Blue Morpho Butterfly, 1864-5.

To live in this world by Mary Oliver

To live in this world you must be able to do three things:
To love what is mortal,
To hold it against your bones knowing
Your own life depends on it;
And when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

Mary Oliver - In Blackwater Woods from her collection, American Primitive, 1983. 

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