Status Updates From Dream Work

mary oliver. the best. lowkey crying rn

I’ve been disappointed in how long it’s been taking me to read this book. However, I’ve realized now that this isn’t the type of book you really sit down and read.
“Dream Work” is a poetry collection, and it should be read as such. Reading of poetry is not linear, or fast, or organized; I should not expect it to be

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
    love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.