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Jane Hirshfield Poems
- Changing Everything I was walking again in the woods, a ...
- Rebus You work with what you are given, the red clay of ...
- The Heart's Counting Knows Onl... In Sung China, two monks...
- The Task It is a simple garment, this slipped-on world. We ...
- Standing Deer As the house of a person in age sometimes ...
- Da Capo Take the used-up heart like a pebble and throw it ...
- The Envoy One day in that room, a small rat. Two days later,...
Jane Hirshfield (born 24 February 1953)[1] is an American poet, essayist, and translator. She was born in February 24, 1953. She was born on East 20th Street, New York City. She received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University in the school's first graduating class to include women.
Hirshfield's seven books of poetry have each received numerous awards. Her fifth book, Given Sugar, Given Salt, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and her sixth collection, After, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize (UK) and named a 'best book of 2006' by The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the Financial Times. She has written a book of essays, Nine... more »
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Changing Everything
I was walking again
in the woods,
a yellow light
was sifting all I saw.
Willfully,
with a cold heart,
I took a stick,
lifted it to the opposite side
of the path.
There, I said to myself,
that's done now.
Brushing one hand against the other,
to clean them
of the tiny fragments of bark.
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