All the Difficult Hours and Minutes
Jane Hirshfield
All the difficult hours and minutes
are like salted plums in a jar.
Wrinkled, turn steeply into themselves,
they mutter something the color of sharkfins to the glass.
Just so, calamity turns toward calmness.
First the jar holds the umeboshi, then the rice does
-Jane compares the difficult hours and minutes salted plums in a jar . She basically meant that these hours are considered sour, not the type of hours we want. She compares hours to salted plums, wrinkled to steeply others, Color of sharkins to the glass, calamity to calmness. Jane speaks out of terms and it makes much sense to the reader. Real life experience and real life feelings, reality.
All the difficult hours and minutes
are like salted plums in a jar.
Wrinkled, turn steeply into themselves,
they mutter something the color of sharkfins to the glass.
Just so, calamity turns toward calmness.
First the jar holds the umeboshi, then the rice does
-Jane compares the difficult hours and minutes salted plums in a jar . She basically meant that these hours are considered sour, not the type of hours we want. She compares hours to salted plums, wrinkled to steeply others, Color of sharkins to the glass, calamity to calmness. Jane speaks out of terms and it makes much sense to the reader. Real life experience and real life feelings, reality.
-Jane compares the difficult hours and minutes salted plums in a jar . She basically meant that these hours are considered sour, not the type of hours we want. She compares hours to salted plums, wrinkled to steeply others, Color of sharkins to the glass, calamity to calmness. Jane speaks out of terms and it makes much sense to the reader. Real life experience and real life feelings, reality.
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