{"id":451,"date":"2009-02-24T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T10:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/02\/heard-in-one-city-5.html"},"modified":"2009-02-24T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T10:31:09","slug":"heard-in-one-city-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/02\/heard-in-one-city-5.html","title":{"rendered":"Heard in One City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wild Geese<br \/>\nby Mary Oliver<br \/>\nYou do not have to be good.<br \/>\nYou do not have to walk on your knees<br \/>\nfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.<br \/>\nYou only have to let the soft animal of your body<br \/>\nlove what it loves.<!--more--><br \/>\nTell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.<br \/>\nMeanwhile the world goes on.<br \/>\nMeanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain<br \/>\nare moving across the landscapes,<br \/>\nover the prairies and the deep trees,<br \/>\nthe mountains and the rivers.<br \/>\nMeanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,<br \/>\nare heading home again.<br \/>\nWhoever you are, no matter how lonely,<br \/>\nthe world offers itself to your imagination,<br \/>\ncalls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting \u2014<br \/>\nover and over announcing your place<br \/>\nin the family of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild Geese by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. 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