Autumn (almost), again.

Welcome back to 'This Dream is a Poem' where we explore dreams and writing. Today a poem about the return of a season prompts a deep dive into recurring conflicts and the cycles of history.

Here, summer is already fading as one by one the leaves begin to fall, again. (Photo by Larry Chen on Unsplash)

A friend who knows I’ve embarked on a project to translate the story of Sarah, Abraham, and Hagar from biblical Hebrew into English, suggested I read the poet Jane Hirshfield’s essay on translation, “The World is Large and Full of Noises.”

Which…