"Wild Goose"

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves

_Mary Oliver

I must go where the wild goose goes,

I must know what the wild goose knows,

Wild goose, brother goose,

Which is best?

A wandering foot,

or a heart a rest?