Mountain Stream Poem

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

I’ve looked, but I cannot find a poem

that Mary Oliver has written about

a rushing mountain stream, the

kind that takes on the tongues

of gods after storms have done

their cleansing and prepared the

land for what is next to come. How

could she not? How could her pen not

have stopped here, so many times

before, wondered, listened, and then

told the stories that the gods want

us to hear, want us to live?

I have written one for her.

~ Jamie K. Reaser, Author

Published in "Conversations with Mary: Words of Attention and Devotion"

Winner of the Nautilus Book Award silver medal for poetry

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