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Friday, September 24, 2010

The Fifth Sacred Thing


Poem (the spirit likes to dress up)

The spirit
likes to dress up like this:
ten fingers,
ten toes,

shoulders, and all the rest
at night
in the black branches,
in the morning

in the blue branches
of the world.
It could float, of course,
but would rather

plumb rough matter.
Airy and shapeless thing,
it needs
the metaphor of the body,

lime and appetite,
the oceanic fluids;
it needs the body's world,
instinct

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

Picture found here.

3 comments:

Emme Toaye said...

Interesting poetry to inspire my darker side for Halloween creating and the costume site is something I'll have to look closer at :D. My Halloween creating is bleeding over into my Christmas creating this year and I'm jumping back and forth so often there is no telling what the Christmas gifts this year will look like.

Cyn said...

Beautiful!

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