Status Updates From Upstream: Selected Essays

there’s parts i like and parts i don’t like, love her poetry books but i don’t think this is for me (also i didn’t need to know that she tried her cats breast milk 😀)

Is she getting a random masters degree or something? Why am I reading multiple essays that are just her writing about other authors? I mean I like Edgar Allan Poe too but I thought I was reading Mary Oliver’s work, not Mary Oliver explaining Emerson to me

All things are meltable, and replaceable. Not at this moment, but soon enough, we are lambs and we are leaves, and we are stars, and the shining, mysterious pond water itself.