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Stone and Knife

One angle blunts, another sharpens. Loss also: stone ÃÂ£ knife. Some griefs augment the heart, enlarge; some stunt. Scentless...
American Poetry Review, The, 09/01/09 by Hirshfield, Jane · More from publication
These Also Once Under Moonlight

A snake with two small hind-limbs and pelvic girdle. Large-headed dinosaurs hunting in packs like dogs. Others whose scaly plates thistle to...
American Poetry Review, The, 09/01/09 by Hirshfield, Jane · More from publication
When Your Life Looks Back

When your life looks, back as it will, at itself, at you - what will it say? Inch of colored ribbon cut from the spool. Flame curl,...
American Poetry Review, The, 09/01/09 by Hirshfield, Jane · More from publication
Returned from Long Travels

Waking not recognizing the windows the calls of the birds of this place not even your own planted roses not knowing if this is exhaustion or...
American Poetry Review, The, 09/01/09 by Hirshfield, Jane · More from publication
Early Rooms

A STUDIO IS A PLACE FELT SAFE ENOUGH for changing inside of. It can be as tiny as a beach cabana whose modesty door goes down only so far as the...
American Poetry Review, The, 01/01/09 by Hirshfield, Jane · More from publication
Tree

Tree Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. ...
Christian Century, 10/19/04 by Jane Hirshfield · More from publication

"Of": An Assay.

Its chain links can be delicate or massive. In the human realm, directional: though one thing also connects to another through "and," this is not...
American Scholar, 03/22/04 by Hirshfield, Jane · More from publication
The Woodpecker Keeps Returning.(Poem)

The woodpecker keeps returning to drill the house wall. Put a pie plate over one place, he chooses another. There is nothing good to...
American Scholar, 03/22/04 by Hirshfield, Jane · More from publication
To Gravel: An Assay.(Poem)

In you, as in a life, the part cannot stand for the whole. One chip of you bites the hand like a word scissored out of its sentence,...
American Scholar, 03/22/04 by Hirshfield, Jane · More from publication
Late Prayer

Tenderness does not choose its own uses. It goes out to everything equally, circling rabbit and hawk. Look: in the iron bucket, a single nail,...
UU World: The Magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association, 11/01/02 by Hirshfield, Jane · More from publication