Monday, September 19, 2022
9/19/ 2022 Attention Short Story Lovers/ New Coolest American Short Stories Anthology/ New Annual Short Story Anthology Will Captivate You
""Love short stories? This collection is for you. Not yet sure how to feel about short stories? This collection is definitely for you. Whoever you are, wherever you are: read these stories!" -Lori Ostlund, Flannery O’Connor Award winner and author of After the Parade and The Bigness of the World"
Coolest American Short Stories
Listen to podcast with the editors Mark Wish and Elizabeth Coffey.
My Story Auras will be in the 2023 Anthology More on the 2023 Anthology in future posts.
9/19/22 Mary Oliver Poem Geese and Drawing
Geese©2000 by Elizabeth P. Glixman
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
from Dream Work by Mary Oliver
published by Atlantic Monthly Press
© Mary Oliver
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