<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Now A Darkness Is Coming<div><br></div><div>I hold my life with two hands.</div><div>I walk with two legs.</div><div>Two ears are enough to hear Bach with.</div><div><br></div><div>Blinded in one eye, a person sees with the other.</div><div><br></div><div>Now a great darkness is coming.</div><div>A both-eyes darkness.</div><div><br></div><div>I have one mouth.</div><div>It holds two words.</div><div><i>Yes, No,</i></div><div>Onside all others.</div><div><br></div><div><i>Yes. No. No. Yes.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>I say yes to these words, as I must,</div><div>and I also refuse them.</div><div><br></div><div>My two legs,</div><div>shaped to go forward.</div><div>obedient to can’t-know and must-be,</div><div>Walk into the time that is coming.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Jane Hirshfield</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>