Tuesday, September 13, 2005

More gifts for a girl travelling light

Interesting fact no. 1: If someone sends a dozen red roses to you at your workplace, your co-workers spend all day trying to figure out why.

Interesting fact no. 2: If someone sends a dozen red roses to you at your workplace, you spend all day looking at them. And do NO WORK.

I can't post the roses, so here's another gift I got recently. Appropriately, it's called Gift.

GIFT
Czeslaw Milosz

A day so happy.
Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I knew no one worth my envying him.
Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.
To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain.
When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and sails.

Thank you.

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