LOL Joy! Yes, I totally understand that breakup, too. Love Mary Oliver. Dogfish is one of my faves. I almost posted the below excerpt instead of the one above :)
"I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,
I love Mary Oliver, I once gave someone her dogfish poem as a break-up letter. I don't think he understood at all, hence the break-up
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LOL Joy! Yes, I totally understand that breakup, too. Love Mary Oliver. Dogfish is one of my faves. I almost posted the below excerpt instead of the one above :)
ReplyDelete"I wanted the past to go away, I wanted
to leave it, like another country; I wanted
my life to close, and open
like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song
where it falls
down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery;
I wanted
to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,
whoever I was, I was
alive
for a little while."