For Scientist Jim Sedell

CALLED, CREEKSIDE

ANY TIME MORNING, ANY PLACE WALDEN, ANY MOMENT ALIVE, AWAKE: GOING TO THE WOODS TO LIVE DELIBERATELY . . . . WITH MOM’S PIE BERRY PIE AND PBR–THE HORSE LEAVES THE BARN, THE TRILLIUM TRUMPS CLEARCUT HILL, AND POETRY THEREOF INCLUDING THE LIKES AND LOVES OF ROBERT FROST, MARY OLIVER, E.E. CUMMINGS, WENDELL BERRY, JESSICA GREENBAUM, RUMI, WILLIAM STAFFORD, GALWAY KINNELL, WILLIAM BLAKE, RAYMOND CARVER, DONALD HALL, DONALD RAVELL, SHAKESPEARE, 23 PSALM, OH AND YES, THOREAU, AHEM! AND YOUR RADIO HOST’S ENGAGING

ADVENTURES WITH WOODS AS AGENCY OF MORNING FOR OSU’S SPRING CREEK/TRILLIUM PROJECT (E.G., “WHAT I ATE AND WHAT I LIVED FOR”)

What is it about morning, the best time of the day, coming out of darkness, this miracle of resurrection, “I who have died am alive again today,” that line from e.e. Cummings in us, morning our time and earth’s time of turning, returning to our star of which we are made, rising, to more and more light, shining world in rain or sun, what was dark dazzling and glistening, what was silent now bird song, rooster crow, we’re slow, we’re been asleep, half unconscious . . .but now awake—as in e.e. cummings of this same sonnet which sings “i thank You God for most this amazing,” “i who have died am alive again today,” ending his morning prayer of gratitude, “now the eyes of my eyes are open and/now the ears of my ears are awake”– a fresh start, for all that is possible in our day and life. This is how Mary Oliver captures morning essence, “I happened to be standing,” from A Thousand Mornings. Let’s begin! There is more day to dawn! The sun is a morning star! This show was a joy to do and I send you morning energy from immersion in these poets and scientists whose reverence for woods and words inspires conviction of resurrection. Know you are earth’s beloved. (Write me at bmossberg@csumb.edu)

© Barbara Mossberg 2013

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