PEACE OF WILD THINGS

WENDELL BERRY

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives might be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

The Peace of Wild Things is a body of work by Zara Tisma that presents itself as a series of ongoing journal entries from her visits down to the South West. Inspired by the poem Peace of Wild Things written by the American writer Wendell Berry, her work seeks to capture the mesmerising, soothing atmospheres that exist within coastal towns and countryside.