Susan's Poetry: Interviews at Poets United

December 6, 2019: Celebrating Susan and Sumana
July 22, 2019: Poems of Peace
August 13, 2018: Poems of the Week ~ The Whale Heard Around the World
August 14, 2017: CHATTING WITH SUSAN CHAST: A MARGE PIERCY WORKSHOP
August 29, 2012: Life of a Poet - Susan Chast

THE PEACE of WILD THINGS

by Wendell Berry

When despair grows in me
and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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