Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Autumn

"and imagination
  and the dark hug of time,
   sweetness
     and tangibility,

"to be understood,
  to be more than pure light
   that burns
     where no one is --

"so it enters us --
  in the morning
   shines from brute comfort
     like a stitch of lightning;

"and at night
  lights up the deep and wondrous
   drownings of the body
     like a star."

-Mary Oliver