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 Jane Hirshfield’s most recent book, After (HarperCollins), was named a “best book of 2006” by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and England’s Financial Times. Email a friend >> Printable version >> |
All the Difficult Hours and Minutes
All the difficult hours and minutes
are like salted plums in a jar.
Wrinkled, turn steeply into themselves,
they mutter something the color of sharkfins to the glass.
Just so, calamity turns toward calmness.
First the jar holds the umeboshi, then the rice does. |
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