The author is interested in the mutual illumination of Jane Hirshfield’s poetry and Jolanta Brach-Czaina’s philosophical essay. The poems of the American woman and Szczeliny istnienia are set in the stream of mindfulness, and become ways of cognition for the readers. Both authors deal with registers of everyday life that constitute the essence of experience, and write about them in a language that is far from cold. This restructuring on the part of the reader can lead to poetic therapy and epiphanies of everyday life.