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# Flower Moon—How She Travels
- URL: https://poetry101.love/how-she-travels/
- Published: 2026-06-01T01:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-29T02:14:11.000Z
- Description: by Mary Oliver
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: Mary Oliver, #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

She moves only by night and on a south wind.  
The wild ducks are her envoys,  
flying ahead,  
scouting the ponds, summoning  
turtles and dragonflies out of the beds  
of roots and mud.  
The wagon she hauls with her  
is full of new leaves  
which she sprinkles over the trees as she passes, crying out  
the words necessary to birth;  
and small fish  
she shakes into ditches and streams;  
and once I saw her  
lift from her wagon the Flower Moon,  
round and full and milk-white  
as a woman's breast,  
and she kissed it,  
she sang to it,  
she tossed it high above the trees, then gave  
another to the shining river.

Oliver, Mary. [Twelve Moons](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Twelve%5FMoons/4atuswEACAAJ?hl=en&ref=poetry101.love). United States, Little, Brown, 1979.