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What could this be if it isn’t a prayer?

I wouldn’t persuade you from whatever you believe
or whatever you don’t. That’s your business.

But I thought, of the wren’s singing, what could this be

if it isn’t a prayer?

So I just listened, my pen in the air.

From “I Happened to Be Standing” in A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver

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