the journey by Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver, from “Marengo.” [ID in alt text]

{Words by Charles Bukowski/ Mary Oliver from invitation}

Mary Oliver, from a poem titled "Work," featured in The Southern Review (edited)

snowy night by Mary Oliver

J. R. R. Tolkien ("The Fellowship of the Ring"), Parte de todo (src), Faiz Ahmed Faiz/tr. Naomi Lazard ("When Autumn Came"), Marina Tsvetaeva, a photo by me (src), Margaret Atwood ("War Photo 2"), photo (src), Tony Hoagland (“Peaceful Transition”), Slope Point, New Zealand (src), Tara Bray ("Listen"), Max Dupain ("Banksias by the Sea"), Mary Oliver ("When I am Among the Trees"), source unknown, Ted Kooser ("Trees")

Jericho Brown, "To Be Asked for a Kiss"

1. anne sexton (“the truth the dead know”), 2. anne sexton (“suicide note poem”), 3. mary oliver (“august”), 4. l.m. montgomery (“anne of the island”), 5. morgan parker (“the black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth”), 6. found poems: sylvia plath / peter k. steinberg (“percy key among the narcissi”) artwork by hugo grenville

oil on canvas, 2012

michaelkagerer

"Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver

Quotes by Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Quote from "Excuses For Why We Failed At Love" by warson shire