[Unedited] Mary Oliver with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
Cancer - The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac
These four poems are about a the about te the cancer episode, shall we say, the cancer visit. There is so much to admire, to weep over and to write music or poems about. Fourlat late yesterday afternoon, in the heat, all the fragile blue flowers in bloom in the shrubs in the yard next door had tumbled from the grass. But this morning, the shrubs were full of the blue flowers again. How i wondered, do they roll or crawl back to the shrubs and then back up to the branches that fiercely wanting, as we all do, just a little more life?
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