Many-Roofed Building in Moonlight Poem by Jane Hirshfield

Many-Roofed Building in Moonlight



I found myself
suddenly voluminous,
three-dimensioned,
a many-roofed building in moonlight.

Thought traversed
me as simply as moths might.
Feelings traversed me as fish.

I heard myself thinking,
It isn't the piano, it isn't the ears.

Then heard, too soon, the ordinary furnace,
the usual footsteps above me.

Washed my face again with hot water,
as I did when I was a child.

Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: fish
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Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield

New York / United States
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