A review by lafoliedujour
Dream Work by Mary Oliver

3.0

"to be understood,
to be more than pure light
that burns
where no one is—"
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"Every morning I walk like this around
the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart
ever close, I am as good as dead."
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"All else is peripheral,
remote, unfelt. The connections have broken."
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"each of them, though it stands
in a crowd of many,
like a separate universe,
is lonely, the long work
of turning their lives
into a celebration
is not easy."