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There are names
for what binds us.

—Jane Hirshfield

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You can make
what you want,
do what you wish.

—Joyce Sutphen

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But one day, I know,
it will be otherwise.

—Jane Kenyon

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Poem: For What Binds Us

Poem: Origami

Poem: Otherwise

Poem: In the Nursing Home

Poem: Getting the Machine

Poem: Things I Know

Poem: The Last Things I’ll Remember

Poem: Girl on a Tractor

Poem: At the Moment

Poem: My Father Comes to the City

Poem: Living in the Body

Poem: This Body

Poem: Silo Solo

Poem: Grounded

Poem: Breakfast

Poem: Feeding the New Calf

Poem: Things You Didn't Put On Your Resumé

Poem: The Aunts

Poem: Happiness

Poem: A Bird in County Clare

Poem: Casino

Poem: Condition

Poem: From Out the Cave

Poem: Ever After

Poem: The Exam

Poem: The Exorcism

Poem: The Farm

Poem: Snow at the Farm

Poem: The Shop

Poem: Her Legendary Head

Poem: Homesteading

Poem: In Black

Poem: Learning by Heart

Poem: Into Thin Air

Poem: Naming the Stars

Poem: The Book of Hours

Poem: Bookmobile

Poem: What Every Girl Wants

Poem: Night and Day

Poem: Not for Burning

Poem: Tornado Warning

Poem: Of Virtue

Poem: Notice

Poem: On the Way to the Farm I Think of My Sister

Poem: Older, Younger, Both

Poem: Playing the Pipes

Poem: The Problem Was

Poem: Guys Like That

Poem: Resurrection #6

Poem: Secret Agent Man

Poem: The Temptation to Invent

Poem: The Wordsworth Effect

Poem: Sometimes Never

Poem: Some Glad Morning

Poem: In the Beginning

Poem: The Kingdom of Summer

Poem: The Come Back

Poem: Semi-Literate

Poem: Soundings

Poem: Crossroads

Poem: The Day

Poem: Apple Season

Poem: Death Becomes Me

Poem: Seeing Off the Dead

Poem: These Few Precepts

Poem: Next Time

Poem: The Last Perfect Season

Poem: What the Heart Cannot Forget

Poem: After an Illness, Walking the Dog

Poem: Afternoon at MacDowell

Poem: Eating the Cookies

Poem: In the Grove: The Poet at Ten

Poem: Notes from the Other Side

Poem: Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks

Poem: Alone for a Week

Poem: The Blue Bowl

Poem: Having It out with Melancholy

Poem: Heavy Summer Rain

Poem: The Call

Poem: The Shirt

Poem: The Suitor

Poem: The Bat

Poem: Man Sleeping

Poem: Man Eating

Poem: The Clearing

Poem: This Morning

Poem: On the Aisle

Poem: At the Store

Poem: Yard Sale

Poem: Coming Home at Twilight in Late Summer

Poem: Christmas Away from Home

Poem: Mosaic of the Nativity: Serbia, Winter, 1993

Poem: Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School

Poem: At the Public Market Museum: Charleston, South Carolina

Poem: Bright Sun after Heavy Snow

Poem: Evening Sun

Poem: Inertia

Poem: Inpatient

Poem: Happiness

Poem: Whirligigs

Poem: Ice Storm

Poem: Not Here

Poem: Potato

Poem: Teacher

Poem: Coats

Poem: Church Fair

Poem: April Chores

Poem: Portrait of a Figure near Water

Poem: Reading Aloud to My Father

Poem: Thinking of Madame Bovary

Poem: A Boy Goes into the World

Poem: A Kind of Villanelle

Poem: What Came to Me

Poem: Let Evening Come

Poem: Twilight: After Haying

Poem: Sun and Moon

Poem: The Pond at Dusk

Poem: In Several Colors

Poem: The Painters

Poem: Winter Lambs

Poem: Three Songs at the End of Summer

Poem: Philosophy in Warm Weather

Poem: Walking Alone in Late Winter

Poem: Amor Fati

Poem: A Cedary Fragrance

Poem: First Light Edging Cirrus

Poem: I speak with the future.

Poem: All the Difficult Hours and Minutes

Poem: Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight

Poem: Assay Only Glimpsable for an Instant

Poem: A Blessing for Wedding

Poem: A Chair in Snow

Poem: The Decision

Poem: The Envoy

Poem: Fado

Poem: Green-Striped Melons

Poem: Harness

Poem: Heat

Poem: An hour is not a house

Poem: A Well Runs Out of Thirst

Poem: I am asked a question.

Poem: I sat in the sun

Poem: I Was Not, Among My Kind, Distinctive

Poem: Like the Small Hole by the Path-Side Something Lives in

Poem: Like Two Negative Numbers Multiplied by Rain

Poem: Mathematics

Poem: Zero Plus Anything Is a World

Poem: Meeting the Light Completely

Poem: The Woman, The Tiger

Poem: Mountainal

Poem: My Species

Poem: My Weather

Poem: My Doubt

Poem: (No Wind, No Rain)

Poem: Seawater Stiffens Cloth

Poem: On the Fifth Day

Poem: Once, I

Poem: Page

Poem: Words

Poem: Perishable, It Said

Poem: The Problem

Poem: Rebus

Poem: Vest

Poem: Bees

Poem: Cook

Poem: Waking This Morning Dreamless After Long Sleep

Poem: Things keep sorting themselves.

Poem: The Woodpecker Keeps Returning

Poem: Many-Roofed Building in Moonlight

Poem: Sentencings

Poem: Sonoma Fire

Poem: To Spareness: An Assay

Poem: Wood. Salt. Tin.

Poem: Left-Handed Sugar

Poem: Works & Loves

Poem: My Debt

Poem: My Proteins

Poem: Like Others

Poem: The Pear

Poem: The Bowl

Poem: The Weighing

Poem: The Supple Deer

Poem: Standing Deer

Poem: The Bell Zygmunt

Poem: The Task

Poem: Dog Tag

Poem: A Hand

Poem: Tree

Poem: Mosquito

Poem: Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt

Poem: Vinegar and Oil

Poem: Let Them Not Say

Poem: My Skeleton

Poem: My Life Was the Size of My Life

Poem: Counting, this New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me

Poem: Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes

Poem: For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen

Poem: As If Hearing Heavy Furniture Moved on the Floor Above Us

Poem: I wanted to be surprised.

Poem: Opening the Hands between Here and Here

Poem: I Know You Think I've Forgotten

Poem: It Was Like This: You Were Happy

Poem: A Person Protests to Fate

Poem: Entanglement

Poem: Not Moving Even One Step

Poem: This Was Once a Love Poem

Poem: Three-Legged Blues

Poem: Optimism

Poem: After Work

Poem: Respite

Poem: I Ran Out Naked In The Sun

Poem: Not Yet

Poem: (On Her Decision to Stop Wearing Clothes)

Poem: "You who want ..."

Poem: I cannot dance, O Lord

Poem: O friends,

Poem: The great sea

Poem: [I was passionate]

Poem: [O my Lord]

Poem: “Although the wind ...”

Poem: “In Kyoto ...”

Poem: “On a branch ...”

Poem: Abstract

Nine Gates

Ten Windows

Jane, Jane

Jane, Jane

Joyce, Joyce

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