
[Unedited] Mary Oliver with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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A Poem About a Grasshopper
The grasshopper actually existed, and yet i was able to fit him into that poem. The sugar he was eating was part of frosting from portuguese ladies birthday cakeonow which wasn't important to the poemi. It's a beautiful reading. Is that fun for you to year hoold as she then she is about 12? Ah, beautiful. But so many, so many young people, i mean, young and old, have learned that poem by rt and it's become part of them.
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