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Happy Birthday, Mary Oliver! | Poems Rethabile Likes 🎂 Happy Birthday, Mary Oliver! Poet • Pulitzer Winner • National Book Award • born 10 September 1935 Today we celebrate the birthday of Mary Oliver — one of America’s most beloved and widely read poets. Here is her masterful poem, "When Death Comes," a meditation on mortality, curiosity, and the call to live fully. When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle-pox; when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And therefore I look ...