[20080106 (LA/R10) — SHARED: Poet Mary Oliver, near her home on Cape Cod, has put together a book of photographs by her late partner, Molly Malone Cook. — PHOTOGRAPHER: Josh Reynolds††For The Times
I believe she would have much to teach me about quieting the noise and ‘to do’ in my head, how to go beyond observing and really seeing.
I don’t see that visit ever happening.
So instead I will take her with me out to my deck – in her books of poetry – and begin to listen. Here is Mary Oliver reading one of my favorites, Wild Geese.
And as I type this, wild geese are honking their way across the night sky.
A Writer's Window 
What a coincidence! It’s a beautiful poem!
Yes, a beautiful and needed coincidence. It’d been a long day and I felt like I was sleepwalking through part of it. When I heard those geese it brought a smile to my face – as if Mary Oliver herself was smiling down on me and teaching me to hear, as well as see.
~ Kim