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That she was on the roof with Lily. While we were inside watching. The sunset through the beach house windows. As it sailed on its canoe, off the edge of the world. Turning the water gold,. The sky a veil of orange. If you watch a sunset sitting down,. And then stand up, you can watch it again. I demonstrated for our guests, standing on a chair. Later, she told me about the view from the roof. Very young children rarely notice sunsets.

We pull down the blinds, go back to bed, and cover our heads, escaping the darkness. Filed under Touched by God.

January 15, 2014 by Linda Frances Lein. Reviewed by Linda Frances Lein. As we have come to expect from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, observations of small, pristine moments in the natural world spring up in her newest collection of poems A Thousand Mornings.