Jane Hirshfield - A Hand - Poem for the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany, Year C
The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany, Year C can be found here)
A Hand
Jane Hirshfield
to accompany the lectionary reading: 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a
SNIPPET:
A hand is not four fingers and a thumb.
Nor is it palm and knuckles,
not ligaments or the fat’s yellow pillow,
not tendons, star of the wristbone, meander of veins.
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Jane Hirshfield is an American poet, essayist and translator whose work is often described as sensuous, insightful, and clear. Her love of the natural world is expressed in her poetry, particularly how she sees beauty in the ordinary. Oftentimes, her poems include themes of social justice and environmental awareness. (via Wikipedia)