Jane Hirshfield – Ⅴ
Bamboo
What exists wants to persist.
Even the knock of bamboo on bamboo
spilled outward continues.
And you who have lived—restless, ambitious, aggrieved.
Who have answered to Walter, to Shirley, to Tim.
To Carlos, to Teisha, to Haavo.
Do not think it unchanged, this world you are leaving.
What exists wants to persist.
Even the knock of bamboo on bamboo
spilled outward continues.
And you who have lived—restless, ambitious, aggrieved.
Who have answered to Walter, to Shirley, to Tim.
To Carlos, to Teisha, to Haavo.
Do not think it unchanged, this world you are leaving.
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