16 May
2016
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We Do Not Live in a Simple World

not-so-simpleAt the River Clarion (continued)
by Mary Oliver

3.

Of course for each of us, there is the
daily life.
Let us live it, gesture by gesture.
When we cut the ripe melon, should we
not give it thanks?
And should we not thank the knife
also?
We do not live in a simple world.

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