Poet Jane Hirshfield read onstage as part of the March for Science in Washington, DC on Saturday April 22. Science and poetry both arise from the same desire for exploration, Hirshfield opined. “If you don’t think at all, you think of them as opposites,” she said. “They are allies in discovery.”
Hirshfield's staged poem, "On the 5th Day," appeared in the Washington Post a few days before the march. Here are its opening stanzas (visit the Post link for the complete work.)
On the Fifth Day by Jane Hirshfield
On the fifth day
the scientists who studied the rivers
were forbidden to speak
or to study the rivers.
The scientists who studied the air
were told not to speak of the air,
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Monday, April 24, 2017
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