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Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield was born in New York City in 1953. After receiving...
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Many-Roofed Building in Moonlight

 
by Jane Hirshfield

I found myself
suddenly voluminous,
three-dimensioned, 
a many-roofed building in moonlight.
 
Thought traversed 
me as simply as moths might. 
Feelings traversed me as fish.

I heard myself thinking,
It isn't the piano, it isn't the ears.

Then heard, too soon, the ordinary furnace, 
the usual footsteps above me.

Washed my face again with hot water,
as I did when I was a child.









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