Friday, June 24, 2011

The Blue Robe

How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then;

and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made.

And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves: how joyful to feel the heart quake at the sight of a grandmother, old friend in the morning light, beautiful in her blue robe!

Wendell Berry
From the selected poems of Wendell Berry (Counterpoint Press, 1998)
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