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White Owl Flies into and Out of the Field

Coming downout of the freezing skywith its depths of light,like an angel,or a buddha with wings,it was beautifuland accurate,striking the snow and whatever was therewith a force that left the imprintof the tips of its wings—five feet apart—and the grabbingthrust…

Roses, Late Summer

What happensto the leaves afterthey turn red and golden and fallaway? What happens to the singing birdswhen they can’t singany longer? What happensto their quick wings? Do you think there is anypersonal heavenfor any of us?Do you think anyone, the…

Theookaburras

In every heart there is a coward and a procrastinator.In every heart there is a god of flowers, just waitingto come out of its cloud and lift its wings.The kookaburras, kingfishers, pressed against the edge oftheir cage, they asked me…

Littlewl Who Lives in the Orchard

His beak could open a bottle,and his eyes—when he lifts their soft lids—go on reading somethingjust beyond your shoulder—Blake, maybe,or the Book of Revelation. Never mind that he eats onlythe black-smocked crickets,and dragonflies if they happento be out late over…

Spring

Somewhere a black bear has just risen from sleep and is staringdown the mountain. All night in the brisk and shallow restlessness of early springI think of her, her four black fists flicking the gravel, her tonguelike a red fire…

The Summer Day

Who made the world?Who made the swan, and the black bear?Who made the grasshopper?This grasshopper, I mean—the one who has flung herself out of the grass,the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,who is moving her jaws back…

The Buddha’s Last Instructions

“Make of yourself a light,”said the Buddha,before he died.I think of this every morningas the east beginsto tear off its many cloudsof darkness, to send up the firstsignal—a white fanstreaked with pink and violet,even green.An old man, he lay downbetween…

Some Questions You Might Ask

Is the soul solid, like iron?Or is it tender and breakable, likethe wings of a moth in the beak of the owl?Who has it, and who doesn’t?I keep looking around me.The face of the moose is as sadas the face…

October

1.There’s this shape, black as the entrance to a cave.A longing wells up in its throatlike a blossomas it breathes slowly.What does the worldmean to you if you can’t trust itto go on shining when you’renot there? And there’sa tree,…