“I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life” by Mary Oliver

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Love, love, love, says Percy.
And hurry as fast as you can
along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust.

Then, go to sleep.
Give up your body heat, your beating heart.
Then, trust.

 

“I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life” by Mary Oliver, via Red Bird: Poems, Beacon Press.

Mary Oliver and Percy. (Photo © 2005 by Rachel Giese Brown.)
Mary Oliver and Percy. (Photo © 2005 by Rachel Giese Brown.)

 

2 thoughts on ““I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life” by Mary Oliver”

  1. Brian Dean Powers

    In the first of Mary’s Percy poems, the dog ate a copy of the Bhagavad Gita…. so he’s been thinking about life for a while.

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