Mary Oliver

Poetry 2013 | 121 pages

Someone I dearly love gave me this book of poetry by the infamous Mary Oliver.  I read it.  And then I read it again.  It is a book about a woman and her dogs.  But, of course, it is also much more than that.  Here are two favorite stanzas:

• You may not agree, you may not care, but
• If you are holding this book you should know
• That of all the sights I love in this world —
• And there are plenty — very near the top of
• The list is this one: dogs without leashes.  (pg 5)

AND

• A dog can never tell you what she knows from the
• Smells of the world, but you know, watching her,
• That you know
• Almost nothing. (Pg 27)

Yes, take 15 minutes to read this book, if you love dogs.  Or freedom.  Or life.

March, 2021