az- The Truro Bear and Other Adventures -by Mary Oliver

There’s a bear in the Truro woods.
People have seen it - three or four,
or two, or one. I think
of the thickness of the serious woods
around the dark bowls of the Truro ponds;
I think of the blueberry fields, the blackberry tangles,
the cranberry bogs. And the sky
with its new moon, its familiar star-trails,
burns down like a brand-new heaver,
while everywhere I look on the scratchy hillsides
shadows seem to grow shoulders. Surely
a beast might be clever, be lucky, move quietly
through the woods for years, learning to stay away
from roads and houses. Common sense mutters:
it can’t be true, it must be somebody’s
runaway dog. But the seed
has been planted, and when has happiness ever
required much evidence to begin
its leaf-green breathing?

nice. skimming thr, not m engaged by these poems as poems. phrases & line breaks jar as obvious, not like thought thinking thr. I do like this one though, happily as it gives poem to the picture of the bear on the cover that I like.
fine: happiness breathes leaf-green.

and what she writes is nice. the series re her dog Percy is sweet. he does not like when she reads, no, he wouldn't. and #10 in the series: I ask Percy how I should live my life. Love, love, love. and hurry as fast as you can (why hurry? bcs fun to run?) along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then trust.
good: love, love, love. be in the world. then go to sleep, give up, trust.

Kermit the Hermit

Kermit the Hermit - .billpeet.net
In Monterey Bay There's a jumble of rock

Stacked up like a castle across from a dock.

The king of this castle, an old crab called Kermit,

Lived all by himself in a cave like a hermit.

Kermit the Hermit - Wkp
One day, when Kermit attempts to gain another unnecessary thing, he is almost buried by a dog, but is saved by a poor boy. Kermit is grateful and wants to thank the boy, but cannot think of a way to do so until he finds a chest of gold. As he stores the gold pieces in his cave, he slowly gives up one thing at a time, until he has all the gold and no more possessions in his cave. With the help of the pelican, Kermit drops coins down the boy's chimney. The boy's family becomes rich and Kermit learns the value of sharing.