Although the Wind - Izumi Shikibu

Although the Wind – Izumi Shikibu

Although the wind blows terribly here, the moonlight also leaks between the roof planks of this ruined house.   by Izumi Shikibu translated by Jane Hirshfield   This poem by Izumi Shikibu, who was one of the greatest female poets of the Heian period in Japan, captures what is, I think, one of the biggest…

The Sun - Mary Oliver

The Sun – Mary Oliver

Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon and into the clouds or the hills, or the rumpled sea, and is gone– and how it slides again out of the blackness, every morning, on the other side of the…