April is National Poetry Month

Willits Library National Poetry Month Poem of the Day – April 6, 2013

MARY OLIVER

THE MORNING PAPER

Read one newspaper daily (the morning edition

is the best

for by evening you know that you at least

have lived through another day)

and let the disasters, the unbelievable

yet approved decisions,

soak in.

I don’t need to name the countries,

ours among them.

What keeps us from falling down, our faces

to the ground; ashamed, ashamed?