good words.

8. “honestly, who cares? you don’t always have to worry so much, ashley. it’s okay.”

1. the most perfect first kiss

2. we knew it had to happen at some point…

3. liked me, loved himself

4. bought me a beer

5. it’s hard to explain

6. the one with the suspiciously similar name

7. he tasted like cigarettes and strawberry jam

Instructions for living a life:

Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it.

-Mary Oliver, “Sometimes”

I heard of a fellow named Frost

Who came to two paths where they crossed.

         So he wrote a short ode

         To the less-traveled road,

And he still wanders down it, quite lost!

today, this poem won mary titus’s interim 2012 limerick contest, as judged by the mayor of northfield, mary rossing. the prize: a collection of poems by mary oliver :)