
Parting Words

Jane Hirshfield reflects on interior and exterior worlds in a poem from her latest collection.

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A Poem by Sarah Ruhl
From Love Poems in Quarantine

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Deer Park
A poem from The Way of Ch’an: Essential Texts of the Original Tradition

When They Plow Their Fields
Sixth-century poem by Patacara translated by Susan Murcott

Sanctuary
Two poems from The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón

For the Children
A poem from Gary Synder's Turtle Island

Polish the stone or the mind
A poem from Sarah Ruhl's Love Poems in Quarantine

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Taking a Morning Walk Alone to the Pond North of the Yuhsi After It Rained
“a pristine pond encircled by trees / last night’s rain scattered by the wind”

Under dark pines
"all is the color / of falling snow"

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