Thursday, July 19, 2012

The Morning Reading: "the old clearness leapt"



The Cloudy Vase

~Jane Hirshfield

Past time, I threw the flowers out,
washed out the cloudy vase.
How easily the old clearness
leapt, like a practiced tiger, back inside it.

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(With thanks to the beauty we love)
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Timely. Thanks for this.

the other L

Jaimee said...

Thanks for posting this, I'd never read it before.

 
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