Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026)

Here is a film about a woman who taught a whole country how to kneel in wet grass and call it prayer. It is fine. It is a doorway,

But the thing that made me sit up was John Waters, who should have been ninety percent of this, gossiping like a gull on a piling, delighted, indiscreet, alive.

I will confess I never took her seriously. And then a poem of hers would open a door in my chest I did not know was a door, and I would put on my shoes and go out walking into the woods.

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