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Author: HIRSHFIELD, JANE Matches Found: 43 Hirshfield, Jane Poet's Biography 43 poems available by this author A BLESSING FOR A WEDDING Poem Text First Line: Today when persimmons ripen Last Line: Today when persimmons ripen Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A CEDARY FRAGRANCE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Even now / decades after Last Line: To make the unwanted wanted Subject(s): Conduct Of Life A DAY IS VAST Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: But you can lose it Subject(s): Time A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS Poem Text First Line: Even generous august Last Line: Folds that loneliness, one moment, two, love, back into your arms Subject(s): Love ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES Poem Text Recitation by Author Last Line: First the jar holds the umeboshi, then the rice does Subject(s): Time AT NIGHTFALL Poem Text First Line: Like held lanterns, wavering Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers AUTUMN QUINCE Poem Text First Line: How sad they are Subject(s): Loss DOPPELGANGER Poem Text First Line: The old knot Subject(s): Doppelgangers FADO Poem Text First Line: A man reaches close Last Line: And the copper bowls balance Subject(s): Magic FOR A WEDDING ON MOUNT TAMALPAIS Poem Text First Line: July / and the rich apples Subject(s): Nature GREEN-STRIPED MELONS Poem Text First Line: They lie / under the stars in a field Last Line: The sign of their ripeness Subject(s): Melons; Conduct Of Life HEAT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My mare, when she was in heat Last Line: But desire, desire is long Subject(s): Desire; Animals; Horses HEAT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My mare, when she was in heat Subject(s): Animals; Horses IN SMOOTH WATER THE MOUNTAINS SUSPEND THEMSELVES Poem Text First Line: Here, where shallows and hillside Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation JUST BELOW THE SURFACE Poem Text First Line: Just below the surface, fish, still Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore LAKE AND MAPLE Poem Text Recitation First Line: I want to give myself Subject(s): Peace LIKE THE SMALL HOLE BY THE PATH-SIDE SOMETHING LIVES IN Poem Text Last Line: Small holes that something unweighed by the self-scale lives in Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LIKE TWO NEGATIVE NUMBERS MULTIPLIED BY RAIN Poem Text First Line: Lie down, you are horizontal. Last Line: Into oranges and olives Subject(s): Conduct Of Life LOVE AMID OWL-CRIES Poem Text First Line: It is not Subject(s): Birds; Owls MATHEMATICS Poem Text First Line: I have envied those Last Line: I lied, or did not lie, / in answer Subject(s): Poetry & Poets MILK Poem Text First Line: From time to time the placid Last Line: From cut bank Subject(s): Calm; Milk; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Milkmen; Milkmaids MOMENT Poem Text First Line: A person wakes from sleep Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration MY WEATHER Poem Text First Line: Wakeful, sleepy, hungry, anxious, Last Line: I hold these Subject(s): Life ON THE BEACH Poem Text First Line: Uncountable tiny pebbles Subject(s): Nature; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore PERISHABLE, IT SAID Poem Text First Line: Perishable, it said on the plastic container Last Line: Inside that hour with its perishing perfumes and clashings Subject(s): Middle Age REBUS Poem Text First Line: You work with what you are given Last Line: How can I enter this question the clay has asked? Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SEAWATER STIFFENS CLOTH Poem Text First Line: Seawater stiffens cloth long after it’s dried Last Line: Call her afterward tree, call her seawater angled by silence Subject(s): Life SENTENCINGS Poem Text First Line: A thing too perfect to be remembered Last Line: Think assailable thoughts, or be lonely Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SONOMA FIRE Poem Text First Line: Large moon the deep orange of embers. Last Line: The griefs of others—beautiful, at a distance Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SPELL TO BE SAID BEFORE SLEEP Poem Text First Line: Each pot now hang bright Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares THE DEAD DO NOT WANT US DEAD Poem Text Subject(s): Death THE DECISION Poem Text First Line: There is a moment before a shape Last Line: It cannot be after turned back from Subject(s): Conduct Of Life THE ENVOY Poem Text First Line: One day in that room, a small rat. Last Line: Long-legged and thirsty, covered with foreign dust Subject(s): Rats; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE HEAT OF AUTUMN Poem Text Last Line: And calling it pleasure Subject(s): Autumn; Fall THE PEAR Poem Text First Line: November. One pear Last Line: Dawnlight to dawnlight, I look: it is still there Subject(s): Aging THE RITUAL Poem Text First Line: Before, in the cluttered shop Subject(s): Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 THE STONE OF HEAVEN First Line: Here, where the rivers dredge up Last Line: And seeing, begin to assemble the plain stones of earth. Subject(s): Colors; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE WOODPECKER KEEPS RETURNING Poem Text Last Line: The handsome red-capped bird, the missing mate Subject(s): Woodpeckers THINGS KEEP SORTING THEMSELVES Poem Text First Line: Does the butterfat know it is butterfat, Last Line: No one can ever know that Subject(s): Male-female Relationships TO JUDGMENT: AN ASSAY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You change a life Subject(s): Judgments; Love VILNIUS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: For a long time Last Line: I doubted if I should ever come back Subject(s): Conduct Of Life VINEGAR AND OIL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Wrong solitude vinegars the soul Last Line: Of a fallen donkey, above a church door in finland Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness WAKING THE MORNING DREAMLESS AFTER LONG SLEEP Poem Text First Line: But with the sentence: “use your failures for paper.” meaning, I Last Line: Of ruined paper into a basket, pulling them out again Subject(s): Middle Age; Writing & Writers |
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