We Need to Be Taken Aback

       Sometimes, whatever we are doing, we need to hear what a poem we've come across has to tell us.



               What Can I Say?

What can I say that I have not said before?
So I'll say it again.
The leaf has a song in it.
Stone is the face of patience.
Inside the river there is an unfinishable story
   and you are somewhere in it
and it will never end until all ends.

Take your busy heart to the art museum and the chamber of commerce
but take it also to the forest.
The song you heard singing in the leaf when you were a child
is singing still.
I am of years lived, so far, seventy-four,
and the leaf is singing still.


 
       Thank you, Mary Oliver, for this from your book, Swan.