wild geese & skunk cabbage, by Mary Oliver
close reading perspectives on the natural world from our favorite Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet
In college, I was swept away by Walt Whitman. I kept Song of Myself near my bedside and read it with an almost spiritual devotion.
I was in the throes of my own spiritual journey, deconstructing the …
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