Reflections of a Man's Heart

Just received Given Sugar, Given Salt, other book from Jane Hirshfield.

Still reading her Of Gravity & Angels, but got a glimpse of the poems. Looks good...

Here are two poems I liked:

"Nothing Lasts"

"Nothing lasts" -
how bitterly the thought attends each loss.

"Nothing lasts" -
a promise also of consolation.

Grief and hope
the skipping rope's two ends,
twin daughters of impatience.

One wears a dress of wool, the other cotton.

"Mathematics" (fragment)

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Does a poem enlarge the world,
or only our idea of the world?

How do you take one from the other,
I lied, or did not lie,
in answer.

Boy, I am enjoying her Of Gravity & Angels a lot. What a delicious title, by the way ^^

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Now, I better run if I want to meet F and S and arrive to the cinema on time...