Shadow Companions

In Upstream, Mary Oliver tells us how all her friends have been shadow companions (more about Upsteam). In seance with powerful minds from the books that kept her company.

I never met any of my friends, of course, in a usual way—they were strangers, and lived only in their writings. But if they were only shadow companions, still they were constant, and powerful, and amazing.

What a wonderful thought! Of never being alone, always surrounding yourself with your shadow companions

A mutual companion of Mary Oliver and myself – Walt Whitman

The moth and the fisheggs are in their place,
The suns I see and the suns I cannot see are in their place,
The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.