The October 2nd Flame
Office Administrator
Dear Friends,
Attached is this week’s Flame. Following is Rev. Bossen’s meditation for the week:
“Fall Song” by Mary Oliver
Another year gone, leaving everywhere
its rich spiced residues: vines, leaves,
the uneaten fruits crumbling damply
in the shadows, unmattering back
from the particular island
of this summer, this NOW, that now is nowhere
except underfoot, moldering
in that black subterranean castle
of unobservable mysteries - roots and sealed seeds and the wanderings of water. This
I try to remember when time's measure
painfully chafes, for instance when autumn
flares out at the last, boisterous and like us longing to stay--how everything lives, shifting
from one bright vision to another, forever in these momentary pastures.
from "American Primitive," available on-line at http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Mary_Oliver/3099
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Shirley A. Nelson
Office Administrator
Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland
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