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Tuesday, May 14, 2013


  Late Prayer

by Jane Hirschfeld*
 

Tenderness does not choose its own uses
it goes out to everything equally,
circling rabbit and hawk.
Look: in the iron bucket,
a single nail, a single ruby--
all the heavens and hells.
They rattle in the heart and make one sound.


*(from "The Lives of the Heart")
 

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