Albatross

Form is certainty. All nature knows this, and we have no greater adviser. Clouds have forms, porous and shape-shifting, bumptious, fleecy. They are what clouds need to be, to be clouds. See a flock of them come, on the sled of the wind, all kneeling above the blue sea. And in the blue water, see the dolphin built to leap, the sea mouse skittering; see the ropy kelp with its air-filled bladders tugging it upward; see the albatross floating day after day on its three-jointed wings.

Mary Oliver

Poem: The Albatross

Poem: Albatross

Poem: My Albatross

Poem: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Poem: Someone Is Studying Einstein’s Brain

Poem: I Am Trying to Love the Whole World

Poem: Water at Night

Poem: The Animals are Leaving

Poem: For Edwin Wilson

Poem: Self-Portrait as Baby Albatrosses

Poem: Pacific Trash Vortex

Poem: Forever Plastics

Poem: Origin of Planets

Poem: Non Finito

Poem: Fairy-Land

Poem: Snake

Poem: Kites

Long live the albatross

It’s not you, it’s climate change

Albatross

Albatross

Albatross