- selected poems by W. S. Merwin
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- Separation: "Your absence has gone through me / Like thread through a needle. / Everything I do is stitched with its color."
- Do Not Die: "In each world they may put us / farther apart / do not die / as this world is made I might / live forever"
- Wish: "Please one more / kiss in the kitchen / before we turn the lights off"
- Provision: "All morning with dry instruments / The field repeats the sound / Of rain / From memory / And in the wall / The dead increase their invisible honey / It is August / The flocks are beginning to form / I will take with me the emptiness of my hands / What you do not have you find everywhere"
- For a Coming Extinction: "Gray whale / Now that we are sending you to The End / That great god / Tell him / That we who follow you invented forgiveness / And forgive nothing --"
- For the Anniversary of My Death: "Every year without knowing it I have passed the day / When the last fires will wave to me / And the silence will set out / Tireless traveler / Like the beam of a lightless star // Then I will no longer / Find myself in life as in a strange garment / Surprised at the earth / And the love of one woman / And the shamelessness of men / As today writing after three days of rain / Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease / And bowing not knowing to what"
- In the Time of the Blossoms: "Ash tree / sacred to her who sails in / from the one sea / all over you leaf skeletons / fine as sparrow bones / stream out motionless / on white heaven / staves of one / unbreathed music / Sing to me"
- Looking East at Night: "Death / White hand / The moths fly at in the darkness // I took you for the moon rising // Whose light then / Do you reflect // As though it came out of the roots of things / This harvest pallor in which // I have no shadow but myself"
- The Gods: "-- I / Am all that became of them / Clearly all is lost // The gods are what has failed to become of us / Now it is over we do not speak // Now the moment has gone it is dark / What is man that he should be infinite / The music of a deaf planet --"
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