I didn’t read poetry by Mary Oliver until this year, and I feel like I’m hooked. My favorite poem so far is her poem Journey, but I also like some of her material that explicitly lives in nature. Beautiful stuff.
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“Not a whit, we defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.” Hamlet says this in the final act as he and Horatio prepare for his final duel with Laertes. He’s obviously thinking of death, has been thinking of death.
The comparison comes to the biblical quote. “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.”
Sparrows are valued, and somehow we retain more value than even many of them.
So why do I only feel better than a few?
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At first I was like, I’ll draw the sun and moon. And then I was like, wait. What kind of warped perspective have I got going on here? Then I was like, 8 billion? No one’s going to notice.
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I think they were doing controlled burns in the forest preserves when I saw the deer fleeing the woods for traffic, risking inattentive drivers rather than be consumed by smoke. Either way felt like death to me, but maybe they could dodge a car.
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Finally deciding to self publish a book (available on amazon!) was the step I needed to start posting material online. This webcomic isn’t necessarily poetry, but it’s very much poetry inspired and poetic leaning. If you think I have art skills for radio, maybe check out my poetry book or read my material on Instagram and Facebook (I think I have both links in the ABOUT section).
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