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Mary Oliver speaks to my heart…
Posted By askgail on July 4th, 2009
Blackwater Pond
…To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go
From “In Blackwater Woods” by Mary Oliver
In the Travel Section of today’s NY Times, Mary Duenwald explores the Cape Cod of Mary Oliver’s poetry–using her poems as a guidebook to the flora and fauna of the Province Lands, a little known area in the Cape Cod National Seashore. Click here to read the article.
