Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Great Regulars: What came was "crown shyness":

the way that trees, rather than compete for light, sometimes withdraw from their neighbors' shade and grow instead toward any available brightness. A basic and exemplary sanity. The poem began, then, at the confluence of personal crisis and ecological pondering.

from The Washington Post: Poet's Choice: 'Optimism' by Jane Hirshfield

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