News at Eleven: [Mary Oliver] describes making "a dish

of rice with chicken and almonds. Only," she adds, "the almonds are imaginary and the chicken ran away."

When at the end of her hour, she brings down the house with a standing ovation from an audience that won't let her go, she smiles and says, "I know--you're waiting for 'Wild Geese,' which she proceeds to read:

from The Block Island Times: Mary Oliver's 'work is loving the world'

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