Sunday, January 28, 2024

1141. Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt - Jane Hirshfield

The dog, dead for years, keeps coming back in the dream.

We look at each other there with the old joy.

It was always her gift to bring me into the present—


Which sleeps, changes, awakens, dresses, leaves


Happiness and unhappiness

differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one of

    pressed tin,

this painting proposes.


Each carries the same water, it says.

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