Five Points, Vol. 12 No. 3
Fall 2009From J. D. McClatchy, “What I think of as distinctly American in [my poems] is their interest in the idea of Elsewhere, and their obsession with the self.”
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Jane Hirshfield
Chapel
The moonlight builds its cold chapel
again out of piecemeal darkness.
You who have ears and hands, it says, come in;
no need to stamp the snow-weight from your shoes.
It lifts another block and begins to chisel:
Kyoto, Vladivostok, Chicago, Perth, Beijing.
Huge-handed, working around you in silence,
as a cat will enter the silence where no dog lives.