three ways i dream for your return

A Mouse and a Frog Near a Pond Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana (Author) PERIOD 1073 AH/AD 1663

Beans Green and Yellow

From Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

By Mary Oliver 

In fall

it is mushrooms

gathered in dampness

under the pines;

in spring

I have known the taste of the lamb

full of milk

and spring grass;

today

it is beans green and yellow

and lettuce and basil

from my friend’s garden –

how calmly,

as though it were an ordinary thing,

we eat the blessed earth.

Hieronymus Bosch - detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights