the daily comment for tuesday, july 7, 2009

[thedailycomment at hobbit-hillton.org]

  *sleeping in the forest*
i thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets  
full of lichens and seeds.
i slept as never before,
a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the  
stars but my thoughts,
and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees.
all night i heard the small kingdoms breathing around me,
the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
all night i rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous  
doom.
by morning i had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.
~~~ mary oliver ~~~