How we interact with our climate and nature, for good and too often for ill, is a pressing concern i
How we interact with our climate and nature, for good and too often for ill, is a pressing concern in the work of Jane Hirshfield, as in this piece from her latest collection, Ledger.Corals, Coho, CoelenteratesI keep a white page before me.Each time oneis marred with effort, striving, effect, I turn to another.Corals, coho, coelenteratesinside the waving arms of your branchesthat give off a scent intoxicant only to certain fish—lichens, burdocks, mycelial mats between trees—forgive this hubris. Some hope is in it.Your companions are new here.A child who crayons does not knowher drawing leaves behind absence on forest, on ocean.She falls into the colors.More on this book and author:Learn more about Ledger by Jane Hirshfield.Browse other books by Jane Hirshfield.Hear Jane Hirshfield read in person and online in Newtown, PA (Wordsmiths Reaing Series, April 29).Visit our Tumblr to peruse poems, audio recordings, and broadsides in the Knopf poem-a-day series.To share the poem-a-day experience with friends, pass along this link. -- source link
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