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The Place I Want To Get Back To.....

is where

in the pinewoods

in the moments between

the darkness

and first light 

two deer

came walking down the hill

and when they saw me

they said to each other, okay,

this one is okay,

let's see who she is

and why she is sitting

on the ground, like that,

so quiet, as if

asleep, or in a dream,

but, anyway, harmless;

and so they came

on their slender legs

and gazed upon me

not unlike the way

I go out to the dunes and look

and look and look

into the faces of the flowers,

and then one of them leaned forward

and nuzzled my hand, and what can my life

bring to me that could exceed 

that brief moment?

For twenty years

I have gone every day to the same woods,

not waiting, exactly, just lingering.

Such gifts, bestowed,

can't be repeated.

If you want to talk about this

come to visit.  I live in the house

near the corner, which I have named

Gratitude.

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This beautiful poem is by Mary Oliver and Gregg and I have taken these photos over the last several years and have been shown before.  However, it's been a while and I am revisiting them for the poem I found today.

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