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From todays Writers Almanac. What a great poem. Holding On To Benjamin by Mary Oliver No use to tell him that he and the raccoon are brothers. You have your soft ideas about nature he has others, and they are full of his white teeth and lip that curls, sometimes, horribly. You love this earnest dog, but also you admire the raccoon and Lord help you in your place of hope and improbables. To the black-masked gray one: Run! you say, and just as urgently, to the dog: Stay! and he wont or he will, depending on more things than I could name. Hes sure hes right and you, so tangled in your mind, are wrong, though patient and pacific. And you are downcast. And its his eyes, not yours, that are clear and bright.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 11:51:02 +0000

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