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Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield , a Tricycle contributing editor, is a poet, essayist, editor, and translator. She practiced at San Francisco Zen Center, Tassajara, and Green Gulch Farm between 1974 and 1982 and received lay ordination in 1979.

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A Blessing for Wedding

Today when persimmons ripenToday when fox-kits come out of their den into snowToday when the spotted egg releases its wren songToday when the maple sets down its red leavesToday when windows keep their promise to openToday when fire keeps its promise to warmToday when someone you love has diedor someone you never met has diedToday […]

By Jane Hirshfield

Magazine Arts & Culture

To Speech

          This first, this last:there’s nothing you wouldn’t say. Unshockable inclusion your most pure nature,and so you are like an iron pot—whatever’s put in, it holds. We think it’s the fire that cooks the stew,but, speech, it’s also you:teacherof fire-making and stew-making,orator of all our plans and intentions. We think we […]

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