Mary Oliver: I Happened to Be Standing
The poems of Mary Oliver seem like prayers that anyone can pray. Spacious and
simple, expansive and ordinary, they don't require us to believe in anything in
particular. But they do ask us to pay attention to the fleeting and particular
space of a moment we are living through, which she has touched so
tenderly.
Here you can listen to her reading one of her poems: "I Happened to be Standing."