Thank you, Mary Oliver

Spring Fever

28 x 22

Acrylic. India ink

Thank you, Mary Oliver 

for bringing the miracle of the everyday 

to my attention.

Your love of all free and easy things;

the wind swimming across a field,

flower heads drowsy, intoxicated by the sun,

bees drunken-heady with nectar-

with every poem

you remind me of the grandeur of simplicity.

Slow down,

be amazed, 

you seem to say. 

When I do,

my eyes soften,

my breath catches,

I bow and my heart sings.

Thank you, Mary Oliver

for bringing the miracle of the everyday 

to my attention.