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[Unedited] Mary Oliver with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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You and Your Poems Are a Convergence

I have a little difficulty now, having lived for years in small town in the north. I am trying very hard to love the mangroves. And always i wanted the eye, many of the poems our eye did this. Rather than about myself. It was about an experience that happened to be mine, but could well have been anybody else's. The only record i broke in school was truancy. So i just began with these little notebooks and scribbled things as they came to me,. Then worked them into poems later.

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