Heavy by Mary Oliver • Read A Little Poetry

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"Have you heard / the laughter / that comes, now and again, / out of my startled mouth?"

Heavy Mary Oliver That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die. Surely God had his hand in this, as well as friends. Still, I was bent, and my laughter, as the poet said, was nowhere to be found. Then said my friend Daniel, (brave even among lions), “It’s not the weight you carry but how you carry it– books, bricks, grief– it’s all in the way you embrace it, balance it, carry it when you cannot, and would not, put it down.” So I went practicing. Have you noticed? Have you heard the laughter that comes, now…

Heavy by Mary Oliver • Read A Little Poetry

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