You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound. - Mary Oliver

The god of dirt
came up to me many times and said
so many wise and delectable things,
I lay
on the grass listening
to his dog voice,
frog voice; now,
he said, and now,
and never once mentioned forever

from, One or Two Things

It does no good to bark at the television,
I said. I’ve tried it too. So he stopped.

Starlings in Winter

I feel my boots
trying to leave the ground,
I feel my heart
pumping hard. I want

to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.