When it’s over, I want to say: All my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. - Mary Oliver

When it's over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement.

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted
to leave it, like another country; I wanted
my life to close, and open
like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song
where it falls
down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery;
I wanted
to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,

whoever I was, I was

alive
for a little while.

In every heart there is a coward and a procrastinator./In every heart there is a god of flowers, just waiting/to come out of its cloud and lift its wings.

Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.