Dangerous and Noble Things

I  feel my boots

 

trying to leave the ground

 

I feel my heart

 

pumping hard.  I want

to think again of dangerous and noble things.

I want to be light and frolicsome.

I want to be improbably beautiful and afraid of nothing,

 

as though I had wings.

 

--- Mary Oliver

 

Here Today

“We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand… and melting like a snowflake.”


--- Some Wise Someone Somewhere