magazine Parting Words

Advice to Myself

“the screen / stays backlit and empty / thus I meet myself again / hopeful and useless / a mystery”

By Jane Hirshfield

Spring 2020

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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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