Tuesday, June 2, 2020

late prayer






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.





~  Jane Hirshfield 
from The Lives of the Heart




1 comments:

Timothy said...

beautiful. love your flow here.