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Hirayama looks out the window in the film Perfect Days

PERFECT DAYS: 
Wim Wenders's Cinematic Masterpiece of Quiet Living

Laurie Anderson

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Thom Yorke, Laurie Anderson, Arctic Monkeys, and more

Poet Jane Hirshfield photographed looking in the distance

THREE POEMS
by Jane Hirshfield
 

featuring poems, excerpts, and photographs from my books:

A RAY OF SIGH: The Eternal Circle Where You and I Reside, and FRACTURED PERCEPTIONS

A RAY OF SIGH: The Eternal Circle Where You and I Reside

I LOVED A DREAMER ON THE HAZIEST OF MORNINGS

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I loved a dreamer this morning,

His dark hair, and the darkness of his brows,

His dark eyes, and the darkness of his visage,

Though pale, as pale as the palest spring,

I loved that dreamer on this, the haziest of mornings!

 

I loved a dreamer this morning,

His loneliness, and his longings,

His tape player recordings,

Though short they were, as short as the shortest spring,

I loved that dreamer on this, the haziest of mornings!

 

I loved a dreamer this morning,

His velvet pants, and the velvet on his jacket,

The pastel on his hands tucked in his pockets,

Though crestfallen, and melancholy,

I loved that dreamer on this, the haziest of mornings!

girl bowing with her hand beside her head in black and white from the book A RAY OF SIGH

FRACTURED PERCEPTIONS

MY NOTEBOOK SMELLS OF LAVENDER

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My notebook smells of lavender,

here, spring still is present in the cherry blossoms and the dandelions,

serenaded by bees and butterflies,

sad winds, and skies of cloud.

My notebook smells of lavender.

It does not care about my silence and solitude,

here, the afternoon fills my room with birdsongs and longing,

longing, longing.

My notebook smells of lavender.

Like a kid with stone-filled pockets, I feel I have the universe in mine;

who are you, my love?

What lies under the form of your smile?

Is it alone, as alone is mine?

hand in front of a white bachround from A RAY OF SIGH
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