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Mary Oliver, You left this world today. You will be missed. Just so you know, the “Country of Trees" is one of my favorite of your poems amidst so many favorites. Thank you for understanding their vertical networked intelligence. I think some of that same intelligence is in you. I have decided to live amidst and follow the wisdom of that society.
The Country of the Trees
by Mary Oliver, Blue Horses
There is no king in their country
and there is no queen
and there are no princes vying for power
inventing corruption.
Just as with us many children are born,
and some will live and some will die and the country will continue.
The weather will always be important.
And there will always be room for the weak, the violets
and the bloodroot.
When it is cold they will be given blankets of leaves.
When it is hot they will be given shade.
And not out of guilt, neither for a year end deduction
but maybe for the cheer of their colors, their
small flower faces.
They are not like us.
Some will perish to become houses or barns,
fences and bridges.
Others will endure past the counting of years.
And none will ever speak a single word of complaint,
as though language, after all,
did not work well enough, was only an early stage.
Neither do they ever have any questions to the Gods--
which one is the real one, and what is the plan.
As though they have been told everything already,
and are content.
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