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This poem, entitled "On Reading Brecht" by Jane Hirschfield, is from "Of Gravity & Angels."


A child packs snow around a bit of
stone
and throws it at his brother.
Each recalls this all his life, the one who threw it, and the one
who cried out in surprise.
And whatever there is of love
between them includes it.
So, too, these words of Brecht’s,
who could not forget
what man does to man in the name of art
or country, yet pressed these poems hard,
and threw.