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LUKE
by Mary Oliver
I had a dog
who loved flowers.
Briskly she went
through the fields,yet paused
for the honeysuckle
or the rose,
her dark headand her wet nose
touching
the face
of every onewith its petals
of silk,
with its fragrance
risinginto the air
where the bees,
their bodies
heavy with pollen,hovered—
and easily
she adored
every blossom,not in the serious,
careful way
that we choose
this blossom or that blossom—the way we praise or don’t praise—
the way we love
or don’t love—
but the waywe long to be—
that happy
in the heaven of earth—
that wild, that loving.
Happy National Dog Day!
Lady White Snake
Lady White SnakeRetold by Aaron Shepard
Illustrated by Song Nan Zhang
Lady White is a thousand-year-old snake who, through centuries of meditation and self-discipline, has managed to attain human form. On a visit to China’s famous West Lake, she falls in love with a young man and soon becomes his wife. But when a Buddhist abbot discovers her true origin, she must fight for both her marriage and her freedom.
