And then the stars stepped forth
and held up their appointed fires---
those hot, hard
watchmen of the night.
---Mary Oliver
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The whole soul seems to see and hear at once.
--Bernard of Clairvaux
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The generosity of thirst
is changing incredulity
into love, here
where the palpable
affection of God
bends rivers into
silent fire, then
back into
the insouciant,
singing grace
of water.
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The elements
of Breath and Body
remember how you
belong to the blank
and smoldering face
of God. How you
wake to his lucent
kiss, how the suggestion
of air is a poignancy
before he gathers it
full and twinkling
for you to breathe.
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You ask me why I make my home in
the mountain forest,
and I smile, and am silent,
and even my soul remains quiet:
it lives in the other world
which no one owns.
The peach trees blossom.
The water flows.
----Li Po
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