Once I saw the freshly built dam of two beaver, a half moon with mud and slender branches, the leaves still fresh upon them; then, as I watched, the water shoved with its silver gloves and it broke, it left the world forever.
~Mary Oliver, Long Life: Essays and Other Writing (2004)
~Mary Oliver, Long Life: Essays and Other Writing (2004)
1 comment:
beautiful, but sad. I'm so glad there is another world where nothing ever gets broken and nothing ever leaves again.
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