Welcome to the first Poetry Pause of the new year.
Enjoy this piece by Mary Oliver, who sat one day in January appreciating two seals that crested in a wave, a moment she can forever access as a memory. And that is a reason to be glad.
Winter at Herring Cove
Years ago,
in the bottle-green light
of the cold January sea,
two seals
suddenly appeared together
in a …
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