Jill Hardin
Jill Hardin, born to musician parents in the Pacific Northwest, received a BA in Music at the University of Oregon, and pursued various musical interests ever since, from performing with the Seattle Opera Company to singing the good ballads of the 30’s and 40’s, while teaching privately and tuning pianos to support her children. She has been writing poetry all along, with emphasis on songwriting in the earlier years, during which she fondly recalls occasional brief mentoring sessions with her brother Tim. She later wrote and performed a one-woman show, “Muse and Mask” for the Seattle Fringe Theatre Festival. Since the late 80’s, she has become much more interested in the purity of the word alone, as an art form, for expressing Truth, Gratitude, and “all the in-betweens”. She lives happily on the Oregon Coast.
…Ponder rather
the Sweetness
in
your own Heart’s
Deepest Place.
If you cannot find it
lean your head
upon my breast—
just as I have mine
upon yours—
now listen
to my beating heart—
climb under it
into it
find your own.
