laura’s Reviews > Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver > Status Update

new favorite is “flare”. i’d quote it but i’d have to write all seven pages of it to do it justice

“The years to come-this is a promise-/ Will grant you ample time/ to try the difficult steps in the empire of thought/ where you seek for the shining proofs you think you must have./ But nothing you ever understand will be sweeter, or more binding,/ than this deepest affinity between your eyes and the world.”