#ledger
heath ledger from 10 things i hate about you (1999)
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How we interact with our climate and nature, for good and too often for ill, is a pressing concern in the work of Jane Hirshfield, as in this piece from her latest collection, Ledger.
Corals, Coho, Coelenterates
I keep a white page before me.
Each time one
is marred with effort, striving, effect, I turn to another.
Corals, coho, coelenterates
inside the waving arms of your branches
that give off a scent intoxicant only to certain fish—
lichens, burdocks, mycelial mats between trees—
forgive this hubris.
Some hope is in it.
Your companions are new here.
A child who crayons does not know
her drawing leaves behind absence on forest, on ocean.
She falls into the colors.
More on this book and author:
- Learn more about Ledger by Jane Hirshfield.
- Browse other books by Jane Hirshfield.
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