Friday, June 09, 2023

My heart

'Poem for the week' -- "My heart":


My heart

sings but the apparatus of singing doesn’t convey

half what it feels and means. In spring, there’s hope,

in fall the exquisite, necessary diminishing, in

winter I am as sleepy as any beast in its

leafy cave, but in summer there is

everywhere the luminous sprawl of gifts,

the hospitality of the Lord and my

inadequate answers

-- Mary Oliver