A Mary Oliver poem for Earth Day: “Ghosts” looks back at the large buffalo herds and forward to what it will take to restore nature.
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Earth Day: Mary Oliver Notices
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Rain Soft as the Fall of Moccasins
Describing the slaughter of the buffalo herds by whites, Mary Oliver draws on Sioux religion to imagine them as not altogether gone.
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