Poem of the day

Jane Hirshfield, 'Tree'

'Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.'

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47100/tree-56d227515c386

'You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted.
Begin again the story of your life.'

Jane Hirshfield, 'Da Capo'

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More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous
tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers,
mitochondria, figs – all this resinous, unretractable earth.

Jane Hirshfield
Optimism

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‘Nothing Lasts’ by Jane Hirshfield

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Today's poem:

A Hand
- by Jane Hirshfield

https://at.tumblr.com/ukdamo/a-hand/b27fqb7pic9l

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The law of cats is simple

Two Kerosene Lanterns
Jane Hirshfield

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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/11/03/two-kerosene-lanterns-jane-hirshfield/

Here's my #SundayStory of this week. It's another one that I wrote quite a few years ago. The title comes from a Jane Hirshfield poem, Each Happiness Ringed By Lions: https://poetryarchive.org/poem/each-happiness-ringed-lions/

Enjoy.

(There is no photo description, since it's the full text of the story. I will mail the story to those who need & want it delivered as a regular text file.)

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Take the used-up heart like a pebble
and throw it far out.

Soon there is nothing left.
Soon the last ripple exhausts itself
in the weeds.

Returning home, slice carrots, onions, celery.
Glaze them in oil before adding
the lentils, water, and herbs.

Then the roasted chestnuts, a little pepper, the salt.
Finish with goat cheese and parsley. Eat.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted.
Begin again the story of your life.

Jane Hirshfield
Da Capo
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“No wind, no rain,
the tree
just fell, as a piece of fruit does.”

This phenomenal poem by Jane Hirshfield hit home this week.

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/150763/no-wind-no-rain

There are names for what binds us:

———

how the flesh grows back/
across a wound, with a great vehemence

———

And when two people have loved each other/
see how it is like a
scar between their bodies

-Jane Hirshfield, "For What Binds Us"
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