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Welcome back to The Daily Poem. I'm David Kern and today is Wednesday, August 5th, 2020. Today is Wendell Berry's

birthday, the great American poet, novelist, essayist, environmental activist, critic, and farmer.

He was born August 5th, 1934. You've heard from him on this podcast before.

Today I'm going to read a poem that Barry wrote called To My Mother. It was

originally published in the October, November, 1987 issue of Poetry Magazine. It goes like this.

I was your rebellious son. Do you remember? Sometimes I wonder if you do remember,

so complete has your forgiveness been? So complete has your forgiveness been, I wonder sometimes

if it did not precede my wrong. And I erred, safe found within your love, prepared ahead of me, the way home or my bed at night,

so that almost I should forgive you, who perhaps foresaw the worst that I might do,

and forgave before I could act, causing me to smile now, looking back,

to see how paltry was my worst compared to your forgiveness

of it, already given.

And this, then, is the vision of that heaven of which we have heard, where those who love

each other have forgiven each other, where for that the leaves are green, the light, a music

in the air, and all is unentangled, and all is undismayed."

It seemed appropriate to read a poem on Wendel Berry's birthday in which he is speaking to his mother,

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