The Ascent of Mount Carmel

A poem-lesson on how to reach divine union, by St. John of the Cross, 1618

The Guardian Angel

Rainer Maria Rilke, two poems from The Book of Images, 1902

Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935 - January 17 2019) * The story of Falling Snow *

4 selections from Jane Hirshfield's book of poems, The Lives of the Heart, 1997

by Mary Oliver, final poem of the book Red Bird, 2008

everything is seen & heard

Books read in 2018. Many were carried around as life-companions, Vollmann's dove book on violence, in particular.

Percy Shelley drowns in 1822, at age 29. Painting by Louis Édouard Fournier, 1889.

Mary Oliver, poem titled Maybe from the collection House of Light, 1990