<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Can You Imagine?</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">For example, what the trees do</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">not only in lightning storms</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">or the watery dark of a summer night</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">or under the white nets of winter</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">but now, and now, and now--whenever</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">we're not looking. Surely you can't imagine</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">they just stand there looking the way they look</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">when we're looking; surely you can't imagine</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">they don't dance, from the root up, wishing</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">to travel a little, not cramped so much as wanting</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">a better view, or more sun, or just as avidly</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">more shade--surely you can't imagine they just</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">stand there loving every</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">minute of it, the birds or the emptyness, the dark rings</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">of the years slowly and without a sound</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">thickening, and nothing different unless the wind,</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">and then only in its own mood, comes</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">to visit, surely you can't imagine</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">patience, and happiness, like that.</font></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""> </font></p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Mary Oliver</font></div></body></html>