today was a beautiful amazing

today was a beautiful amazing.
what can I do but live like this?
to pamper self and friends;
live extended and tiptoed.
taste is the most subtle sense.

are we awake in a sea of sleepers,
or am I an ignorant dreamer?
is my lucidity the dream?

today was a beautiful amazing.
we’re smack dab
in the middle of happiness.

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The recent adbusters has one of my favorite Mary Oliver poems in it. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?” (The Summer Day). I love Mary Oliver. When I first wanted to be a poet, I thought every poet was like her, seeing the beauty in things. In her case, ordinary things, natural things, but I felt that other poets just saw different beauties in different things, and that was what being a poet was about. Seeing the beauty. Writing the beauty.

I had an amazing day today. One of those days that just keeps on with the good things. A near perfect day. There is much to be said for spending $20 on desserts at a good bakery when just enough time has passed to have digested good sushi from dinner. But the company of friends turned that nicety into joy. I feel priveleged in many ways right now… I could go on, but I think I need to end the day… and close my eyes.

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