Jane Hirshfield - Dec 15, Iyengar II & I

Went looking for optimism (this piece is from Ms. Hirshfield’s collection On Beauty), instead I found patience!

MY SPECIES

even

a small purple artichoke

boiled

in its own bittered

and darkening

waters

grows tender,

grows tender and sweet

patience, I think,

my species

keep testing the spiny leaves

the spiny heart