Saturday. Late morning. 66 lovely degrees. The windows are open. It's a regular orchestral feast with tree trimmers, helicopters, twin-engine planes, dogs barking, birds twittering back and forth, traffic humming softly down the hill. Someone just laughed. Someone else just screamed - at their dog to stop barking I think. Someone is rattling glass bottles into their recycling bin. There goes a leaf blower doing a solo now. Here. Have a small slice of a poem, not the whole thing. You won't need it.
How Everything Adores Being
Alive
... what if you had wings
and flew
and flew
into the garden,
then fell
into the up-tipped
face
then fell
into the up-tipped
face
of a white flower,
and what if you had
a sort of mouth,
a lip
and what if you had
a sort of mouth,
a lip
I
to place close
to the skim
of honey
that kept offering itself -
to the skim
of honey
that kept offering itself -
what would you think
then
of the world
as, night and day,
you were kept there -
of the world
as, night and day,
you were kept there -
oh happy prisoner -
sighing, humming,
roaming
that deep cup?
sighing, humming,
roaming
that deep cup?
~ Mary Oliver
~
This post---another E.O.R. (embarassment of riches)
Posted by: Gwen Delmore | Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 11:19 AM
word miner, word finder, you are
Posted by: susan w | Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Glorious photo. glorious poem. Mary Oliver is my favorite and I hadn't heard that one. Thank you! Love it!
Posted by: Shelley Noble | Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 01:04 PM
mm.. and I love bees... thankyou...
Posted by: grrl+dog | Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 04:05 PM
A garden tour AND Mary Oliver?!!!???
I'm happy now.
Posted by: Lisa Hoffman | Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 06:13 PM
I think I might enjoy falling into that Brown Sugar Hibiscus!
Posted by: Janet | Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 06:49 PM
Oh, don't you love her?
This is wonderful.
She knows who's who.
Posted by: Chris | Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM
those hibiscus are over the moon...just love the lush colors. I went to a secret place here in Albuquerque with another student (Paula) and we found a very special play pretty just for you! How fun to connect with a local new friend becasue of your class!! smooches for the MO as well...happy Sunday!
Posted by: Leau | Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 01:15 PM
How synchronistic...I sat in the back yard this morning enjoying the Sunday symphony of sound...and then you and Ms Oliver put it into words and photos. Indeed an EOR. Thanks.
Posted by: Linda | Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 09:20 PM
You gave me a new appreciation of a leaf blower on a Sat. am
Posted by: lilylovekin | Monday, May 18, 2009 at 03:49 PM
oh Mary Ann
what a beautiful post
...close to the skim of honey...
sigh...
xox - eb.
Posted by: eb | Monday, May 18, 2009 at 04:47 PM
oh i adore mary oliver. such a beautiful pairing with that hibiscus mary ann. i do miss the flowers that grow down your way....thank you for spreading the riches.
Posted by: daniela | Monday, May 25, 2009 at 09:41 PM