Monday, October 5, 2009

October by Mary Oliver (part 7)

7
Sometimes in late summer I won't touch anything, not
the flowers, not the blackberries
brimming in the thickets; I won't drink
from the pond; I won't name the birds or the trees;
I won't whisper my own name.

                                              One morning
the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident,
and didn't see me---and I thought:

so this is the world.
I'm not in it.
It is beautiful.

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