After Reading Lucretius, I Go to the Pond – Mary Oliver

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After Reading Lucretius, I Go to the Pond – Mary Oliver

 

The slippery green frog

that went to his death

in the heron's pink throat

was my small brother,

 

and the heron

with the white plumes

like a crown on his head

who is washing now his great sword-beak

in the shining pond

is my tall thin brother.

 

My heart dresses in black

and dances,