In today's news I learned of the recent death of award-winning author Wendell Berry (1934–2026). In more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, Berry explored the notion of living a principled life in accordance with the natural world. His many volumes of poetry include The Broken Ground, The Country of Marriage, and Collected Poems, 1957–1982. True to his vision, Berry lived with his wife, Tanya, on a farm in Kentucky that had been in his family since the nineteenth century,
Here, from the Poetry Foundation website, is one of Berry's fine poems. (published in 1962 and a little bit mathy) exploring the passage of time:
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