Selections from Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver, 1979
Into the Silent Land
excerpt from a book by Martin Laird, 2006
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
House of Light
Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935 - January 17 2019) * The story of Falling Snow *
The Lives of the Heart
4 selections from Jane Hirshfield's book of poems, The Lives of the Heart, 1997
Red Bird Explains Himself
by Mary Oliver, final poem of the book Red Bird, 2008
red bird
everything is seen & heard
Reading List 2018
Books read in 2018. Many were carried around as life-companions, Vollmann's dove book on violence, in particular.
The Funeral of Shelley
Percy Shelley drowns in 1822, at age 29. Painting by Louis Édouard Fournier, 1889.