Ah poetry --Mary Oliver

Evidence: Poems by Mary Oliver

I think that you understand a poet through their words. I offer the following words

A couple of quotes-
from Li Po and the Moon
There is the story of the old Chinese poet:
at night in his boat he went drinking and dreaming
and singing
then drowned as he reached for the moon's reflection.
Well, probably each of us, at some time, has been
as desperate.
Not the moon, though.

Landscape in Winter
Upon the snow that says nothing,
that is endlessly brilliant,
there is something
heaped, dark and motionless.
Then come the many wings, strong and bold.
"Death has happened," shout the carrion crows.
"And this good for us."
and from Yellow
There is the heaven we enter
through institutional grace
and there are the yellow finches bathing and singing
in the lowly puddle.