Jane Hirshfield, “I sat in the sun”
“Draw not nigh hither,” says the Lord to Moses; “put off thy shoes from off they feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground” (Exodus, 3, 5). There...
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Jane Hirshfield, “I Know You Think I’ve Forgotten”
You think I’ve forgotten—the experience of you is now a mixture of memory and pain. My feeling that you could reasonably doubt me wells up, causing both g...
Jane Hirshfield, “Pyracantha and Plum”
Out the window, I would spy a mulberry tree and a pair of birches which were set against a coniferous treeline separating our yard from the neighbor’s. Wh...
Izumi Shikibu, “Although the wind…”
The moon in Japanese poetry is always the moon. Hirshfield begins a brief, personal interpretation of the poem below with this cryptic, lovely sentence. We̵...
Jane Hirshfield, “Late Prayer”
Moonlight fell on the lake, and I felt myself drawn to the waves covered by darkness, still visible, with a rich, silky texture of various shades of black. They...