Sunday, November 1, 2009

Meditation 1

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)

1 comment:

Karen said...

beautiful, but sad. I'm so glad there is another world where nothing ever gets broken and nothing ever leaves again.