Mary Oliver Quotes

Tom Dancer's Gift Of A Whitebark Pine Cone

You Never Know
What Opportunity
Is Going To Travel To You,
Or Through You.

Once A Friend Gave Me
A Small Pine Cone-
One Of A Few
He Found In The Scat

Of A Grizzly
In Utah Maybe,
Or Wyoming.
I Took It Home

And Did What I Supposed
He Was Sure I Would Do-
I Ate It,
Thinking

How It Had Traveled
Through That Rough
And Holy Body.
It Was Crisp And Sweet.

It Was Almost A Prayer
Without Words.
My Gratitude, Tom Dancer,
For This Gift Of The World
I Adore So Much
And Want To Belong To.
And Thank You Too, Great Bear

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