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Jane Hirshfield

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I sat in the sun

I sat in the sun

I sat in the sun

I moved my chair into sun
I sat in the sun
the way hunger is moved when called fasting.

© 2013, Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield

(United States of America, 1953)

Frequently short and spare, Jane Hirshfield’s poems highlight the smallest details, emphasising the power of each word. Time seems to move more slowly in her poems, taking advantage of the “moment before a shape/ hardens,” as she writes in ‘The Decision’. The contemplation and focus in her work allows the reader to look at the world with new eyes. With the proper awareness, a moment can be “Sim...

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I sat in the sun

I moved my chair into sun
I sat in the sun
the way hunger is moved when called fasting.

I sat in the sun

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