For the Lichens
Published in The Atlantic in 2011
On , the poet Jane Hirshfield was boiling mad. Five days into Donald Trump’s presidency, his administration had cut mentions of climate change from its website; in , including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture, employees were forbidden from, “that can sometimes expand the given, actual existence they respond to and question.” So this . By 5 p.m., she had written a poem: “On the Fifth Day.”
