The Tongue Says Loneliness - Jane Hirshfield

[Larry Robinson]

The Tongue Says Loneliness

The tongue says loneliness, anger, grief, 
but does not feel them. 

As Monday cannot feel Tuesday, 
nor Thursday 
reach back to Wednesday 
as a mother reaches out for her found child. 

As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it. 

Not a bell, 
but the sound of the bell in the bell-shape, 
lashing full strength with the first blow from inside the iron.

	- Jane Hirshfield


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