Thursday, September 2, 2010

Summer Sunsets

The Sun (Mary Oliver)
Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone--
and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance--
and have you ever felt for anything

such wild love--
do you tink there is anywhere, in any language
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you

as you stand there,
empty-handed--
or have you too
turned form this world--

or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?




What a difference a day makes! A stormy sunset followed by a peaceful one just one day later.



Blue Heron returned!


Sunset cruises are my favorite...











one day I will paint the inside of all my closets this color...













He's not my dog but he's welcome on my porch...











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