It doesn’t have to be

the blue iris, it could be

weeds in a vacant lot, or a few

small stones; just

pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don’t try

to make them elaborate, this isn’t

a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which

another voice may speak. 

Mary Jane Oliver (1935 - 2019). ameriška pesnica, ki je prejela državno knjižno nagrado in Pulitzerjevo nagrado. Njeno delo navdihuje narava in ne človeški svet, saj izvira iz vseživljenjske strasti do samotnih sprehodov v naravi.