<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Landscape</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Isn't it plain the sheets of moss, except that<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">they have no tongues, could lecture<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">all day if they wanted about</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;">spiritual patience? Isn't it clear<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">the black oaks along the path are standing<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">as though they were the most fragile of flowers?</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Every morning I walk like this around<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">ever close, I am as good as dead.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Every morning, so far, I'm alive. And now<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">the crows break off from the rest of the darkness<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">and burst up into the sky—as though</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;">all night they had thought of what they would like<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">their lives to be, and imagined<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">their strong, thick wings.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Mary Oliver</div></div></body></html>