The full moon and lunar eclipse again wreaked havoc with my sleep – I woke up several times seemingly for no reason, but I looked out the window and said “goodnight, moon“, as if I were in Margaret Wise Brown’s classic book where the bunny says goodnight to various objects and creatures before drifting off to sleep.
I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better. –Mary Oliver

Cinderella by Frances Brundage
A beautiful poem. 🌲🌲🌲
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Oh I love that you said ‘Goodnight moon’ that is really sweet I now want to read the poem it comes from. This is the perfect poem from Mary Oliver….all of her poems are like miracles hehe I just bought the box set from Penguin of her poetry books its about five in there with a focus on her poems about her beautiful dog and the nature, she is a pure joy 🙂
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How awesome to have your own set of her work, she’s definitely worth reading over and over again, I love it! Here’s a free version of “Goodnight Moon”. https://www.hempsteadschools.org/cms/lib/NY01920790/Centricity/Domain/907/Goodnight%20Moon%20Book.pdf
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