Articles tagged with: MARY OLIVER. POETRY
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POEMS OF PONDS, PINEWOODS, PROVINCETOWN AND LIFE
The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began…
I cited the Mary Oliver poem “The Journey” at the beginning of the Fertile Void chapter in Inventing the Rest of our Lives because it spoke so evocatively about the trepidation we feel as we enter unknown territory. The lines “and there was a new voice/ which you slowly/ recognized as your own” in particular resonate with so many women in transition.
This week as I listened to her voice on “Provincetown: …
