morning light moon light
everything shines, little words
slowly read story
Breakage by Mary Oliver –
I go down to the edge of the sea.
How everything shines in the morning light!
The cusp of the whelk,
the broken cupboard of the clam,
the opened, blue mussels,
moon snails, pale pink and barnacle scarred—
and nothing at all whole or shut, but tattered, split,
dropped by the gulls onto the gray rocks and all the moisture gone.
It’s like a schoolhouse
of little words,
thousands of words.
First you figure out what each one means by itself,
the jingle, the periwinkle, the scallop
full of moonlight.
Then you begin, slowly, to read the whole story.
That’s my wish.
And is there enough magic out there in the moonlight to make this dream come true?
So says Burt Lancaster in the role of Moonlight Graham in the movie, Field of Dreams.
In book, Shoeless Joe, by W.P. Kinsella, Doc Graham says, “That’s what I wish, Ray Kinsella, whoever you are. Is there enough magic floating around out in the night for you to make it come true?”
What Ray thinks of is something Joe Jackson said to him.
This is the kind of place where anything can happen, isn’t it?”
They were thinking of Iowa.
I am thinking of the beach.
I love to sit and watch and begin, slowly, to read the whole story.
Anything can happen.
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