A Wild Plan (A Sonnenizio on a line from Mary Oliver)
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
Perhaps you will gather wild mushrooms,
ride the bulls in the Wild, Wild West,
travel the rails over the wildest landscape,
or chase wildebeests in the Kalahari.
Do you hear The Call of the Wild,
urging winds wilder then raging fire?
The vast wilderness of possibility,
a wild stretch of terrain without
civilizing influences. Wildness rages
like a roaring river in a wild, fertile mind-
flooding its banks in wildest splendor.
Do you embrace the wildness or simply surrender?
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