A Very Mary Variation
I gathered lines from the poems of Mary Oliver and rearranged them
into this Bodies in Motion verse:
Unreachable
eager for action
running here,running there
when in motion
hardly able to stop, he leaps, he spins
leaps and dives up and down
time is draining from the clock
running forward
without a backward glance
unreachable
* * * *
all the way home
limping, lumbering
perfectly finished
Taken from these poems, in this order:
“Percy Wakes Me”
“The Storm (Bear)”
“For I Will Consider My Dog Percy”
“The Storm (Bear)”
“The Dog Has Run Off Again (Benjamin)”
“The Gift”
“Percy Speaks While I Am
Doing Taxes”
“The Summer Beach”
“The First Time Percy Came Back”
“Untitled”
“Henry”
“In Pobiddy, Georgia”
Common Threads 