"I Go Among the Trees and Sit Still"

The reading is an excerpt from Wendell Berry’s "I Go Among the Trees and Sit Still"

I go among the trees and sit still.

All my stirring becomes quiet

Around me like circles on water.

My tasks lie in their places

Where I left them, asleep like cattle . . .

Then what I am afraid of comes.

I live for a while in its sight.

What I fear in it leaves it,

And the fear of it leaves me.

It sings and I hear its song.