The Other Kingdoms
Consider
the other kingdoms. The
trees, for example, with their
mellow-sounding
titles: oak, aspen, willow.
Or the snow,
for which the peoples of the north
have dozens of words to
describe its
different arrivals. Or the creatures, with
their
thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their
infallible
sense of what their lives
are meant to be. Thus the world
grows
rich, grows wild, and you too,
grow rich, grow sweetly wild, as
you too
were born to be.
~ Mary Oliver ~
(The
Truro Bear and Other Adventures)
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