A Writer's Ruminations

"

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.

"

— Mary Oliver, “The Uses of Sorrow” (via oofpoetry)

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