Denise Levertov - Sands of the Well (1996)

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You can live for years next door
to a big pinetree [sic], honored to have
so venerable a neighbor, even
when it sheds needles all over your flowers
or wakes you, dropping big cones
onto your deck at still of night.

Denise Levertov

We call it 'Nature'; only reluctantly
admitting ourselves to be 'Nature' too.

Denise Levertov

Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appearrs, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds — the indivisible shared out in endless abundance.

Denise Levertov