Status Updates From What Do We Know: Poems

“I stood awhile and then walked on
over the white snow: the terrible, gleaming loneliness. It took me, I suppose, something like six more weeks to reach
finally a patch of green, I paused so often to be glad, and grateful, and even then carefully across the vast, deep woods I kept looking back.”

“Of all the reasons for gladness,
what could be foremost of this one,
that the mind can seize both the instant and the memory!”

“And I am walking out into all of this with nowhere to go and no task undertaken but to turn the pages of this beautiful world over and over, in the world of my mind.

Therefore, dark past,
I’m about to do it.
I’m about to forgive you
for everything.”

“Take care you don’t know anything in this world too quickly or easily. Everything is also a mystery, and has its own secret aura in the moonlight, its private song.”

“What would you like to see again? My dog” I miss you my gorgeous puppy prince Pinot Grigio

“For the remembrance of the gorgeous and the powerful and the improbable.” She is talking about a raven and she is so right

“It’s morning, and again I am that lucky person who is in it. And again it is spring, and there are the apple trees, and the hummingbird in its branches. On the green wheel of his wings he hurries from blossom to blossom, which is his work, that he might live.”

“Some wild loyalty has me to the root of the heart.”

“I didn’t reason it out, for reason would have sent me away.”

“I want only to be a song.”

“A hundred white-sided dolphins on a summer day, to look with the moon of their eyes into my heart, and find there pure, sudden, steep, sharp, painful gratitude”

I found this at a secondhand bookstore and it is so heavily annotated by the previous owner, I’m about to have a blast I love an annotated book!!!