For gratitude, from Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins. And, here is one link to the rest of the poem:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/autobiographia/
from Autobiographia / by G.E. Patterson
I had everything and luck: Rings of smoke
blown for me; sunlight safe inside the leaves
of cottonwoods; pure, simple harmonies
of church music
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