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What if I chose, said alder, to only do what only I can do?
What if I chose, said penstemon, to only do what gives me joy?
What if I do, said coyote, to take in one quick bite
what gives me joy, and what only I can do:
a song that raises thunder in the human heart?
...
What if — so schooled by water, stone, flower, and tree —
I chose to be a human being?
Then I would be chosen to do what only I can do. I would be chosen to only do what gives me joy.
Friends, you may glimpse me now and then.
From In the Blast Zone, page 104. (OSU Press, 2008)
Full Publication from Oregon State University Press
