Jane Hirshfield – The Fullness of Things
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Body of a Starving Horse Does Not Forget the Size It Was Born To
"Let them not say they did nothing, we did not enough," he says to his audience. "The magnitude of our human heart, spirit, souls lives alas in any circumstance." The poem is one sentence long and its title is sentence in both the grammatical and the judicial sense. He asks if there's anything else you'd like to read as well. 'I don't know if you'll be able to slip this in,' she replies. But it does speak perhaps to what we were just talking about'
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