Heading Home, inspired Mary Oliver's poem called Wild Geese. This one of a kind piece is not for the faint of heart! Centerpiece is a vintage Mother God brass casting circa 1720-1760. The wild geese flying around her are sterling as well as her sacred heart with garnet. Adorned with vintage compass, saint Milagros, and vintage tin. All on an 18" strand of trade beads with a hand made sterling clasp of hands. Centerpiece measures approximately 3" wide by 10" long.
Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
