मंगलवार, 9 फ़रवरी 2010

bamboo





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What exists wants to persist.
Even the knock of bamboo on bamboo
spilled outward continues.
And you who have lived - restless, ambitious, aggrieved.
A Walter,  a Shirley, a Tim.
A Carlos,  a Teisha,  a Haavo.
Do not think it unchanged, this world you are leaving.









~ Jane Hirshfield
from Come, Thief
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