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Mary Monday: The Poet With His Face in His Hands
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Mary Monday: The Poet With His Face in His Hands

written by Jana October 19, 2009

a park, in winter, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl.

I’ve decided to start a new blog feature, “Mary Monday,” where I will feature an excerpt of a Mary Oliver poem with an accompanying photograph. I will probably branch out beyond Mary occasionally, but for right now I’m so thrilled by her poetry I think I could spend quite a long while focusing on just her oeuvre.

excerpt below from “The Poet With His Face in His Hands”

You want to cry aloud…
But to tell the truth the world
doesn’t need any more of that sound.

So if you’re going to do it and can’t
stop yourself, if your pretty mouth can’t
hold it in, at least go by yourself across

the forty fields and the forty dark inclines
of rocks and water to the place where
the falls are flinging out their white sheets…

and you can stand there, under it, and roar all you
want and nothing will be disturbed.

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3 comments

deb October 20, 2009 - 12:35 am

I love Mary Oliver. Thank you, I've never read this one before.

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Alisa October 20, 2009 - 3:04 am

As a relatively new fan of Mary Oliver, I am so excited for this feature!

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Erin G. October 20, 2009 - 7:07 pm

YAY! Good idea. I like poetry and I like your photos. It's a perfect match!

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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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