Felicity

by Mary Oliver

If you’re John Muir you want trees to live among. If you’re Emily, a garden will do. Try to find the right place for yourself. If you can’t find it, at least dream of it.

• All important ideas must include the trees, the mountains, and the rivers.

Beauty can both shout and whisper, and still it explains nothing.

The cricket doesn’t wonder if there’s a heaven or, if there is, if there’s room for him.

This must mean something, I don’t know what.

And just like that, like a simple neighborhood event, a miracle is taking place.

Every day has something in it whose name is Forever.