"So I said yes to everything, yes to the green hills
rolling out ahead, yes to the hayfield tied up in rolls,
yes to the clouds blooming like peonies in the sky’s
blue meadow, the long tongue of the road lolling
out before me, yes to the life of travel, yes to the other
life at home, yes to the daisies freckling the ditch, . . . ."
Continued in The Anglican Theological Review, Vol. 91, No. 1 (Winter 2009), p. 113. Also available online at FindArticles.net and in Serenity Prayers: Prayers, Poems, and Prose to Soothe Your Soul, compiled by June Cotner (Andrews McMeel, 2009).
The last line is reminiscent of Molly Bloom's wonderful soliloquy from the end of James Joyce's Ulysses.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
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