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# My Species
- URL: https://poetry101.love/my-species/
- Published: 2022-09-29T03:53:53.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-29T03:55:45.000Z
- Description: by Jane Hirshfield
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: Jane Hirshfield, #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

even  
a small purple artichoke  
boiled  
in its own bittered  
and darkening  
waters  
grows tender,  
grows tender and sweet

patience, I think,  
my species

keep testing the spiny leaves

the spiny heart

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Hirshfield, Jane. [The Beauty: Poems](https://www.google.com/books/edition/The%5FBeauty/7VD1DQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=getbook&ref=poetry101.love). United States, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017.