[Unedited] Mary Oliver with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Summer Day, Wild Geese
There's a lot of darkness in that book. And i've heard people talk about that wild geese as a poem that has saved lives. Ah, this is the magic of it. That poem was written as an exercise in instopped lines,. As an exercise in what? Instopped lines, period at the end of the line. Yes, yes. I was trying to show the variation. But my mind was completely on that at the same time and i will say that that iihad i heard the wild geese. The poems are just that have just entered the alexici.
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