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In Blackwater woods by Mary J Oliver - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry Edit Report Content Ignore User Add to New List Add to list Mary J Oliver Follow In Blackwater woods Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment, the long tapers of cattails are bursting and floating away over the blue shoulders of the ponds, and every pond, no matter what its name is, is nameless now. Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other sid

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