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W. S. MerwinW. S. Merwin

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Naturally it is night.
Under the overturned lute with its
One string I am going my way
Which has a strange sound.This way the dust, that way the dust.
I listen to both sides
But I keep right on.
I remember the leaves sitting in judgment
And then winter.I remember the rain with its bundle of roads.
The rain taking all its roads.
Nowhere.Young as I am, old as I am,I forget tomorrow, the blind man.
I forget the life among the buried windows.
The eyes in the curtains.
The wall
Growing through the immortelles.
I forget silence
The owner of the smile.This must be what I wanted to be doing,
Walking at night between the two deserts,
Singing.
W. S. Merwin
About the poet

W. S. Merwin

1927 - Present/AmericanWilliam Stanley Merwin is an American poet. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 80s and 90s, Merwin's writing influence derived from his in…

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