Mary Oliver: This Morning

This morning the redbirds' eggs
have hatched and already the chicks
are chirping for food. They don't 
know where it's coming from, they 
just keep shouting, "More! More!"
As to anything else, they haven't 
had a single thought. Their eyes 
haven't yet opened, they know nothing 
about the sky that's waiting. Or
the thousands, the millions of trees.
They don't even Know they have wings.

And just like that, like a simple
neighborhood event, a miracle is
taking place.

— Mary Oliver

From Devotions: The Selected Poems

of Mary Oliver