to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go

-Mary Oliver

High quality 8.5 x 11 print on archival paper- matted in 11 x 14 archival mat. Quote is from Mary Oliver’s poem In Blackwater Woods