I Open The Window
Jane Hirshfield reflects on interior and exterior worlds in a poem from her latest collection.
Parting Words
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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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