"Elegy" by W.S. Merwin
(September 30, 1927- March 15, 2019)
One of my all time beloved poets, with whom I share a birthday, and who left us on this day.

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#3goodthings 1. Double score at the local used shop: hardback copy of #wsmerwin ’s Shadow of Sirius for $10, and a copy of the Long Discourses of the Buddha, a book that costs $50 new, for $25 #buylocal #buyused #poetry #bookstadon 2. One of my oldest and best friends gave me a #startrek mug for #christmas when we met up for coffee today. 3. I got something like three hours of sleep last night, but haven’t experienced much negative fallout from it

Good morning ☀️

(from GARDEN TIME by W.S. Merwin) (2016)

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Excerpt from W.S. Merwin’s “To My Brother Hanson”:
Yes, now the roads themselves are shattered
As though they had fallen from a height, and the sky
Is cracked like varnish. Hard to believe,
Our family tree
Seems to be making its mark everywhere.
I carry my head high
On a pike that shall be nameless.
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"…now the roads themselves are shattered
As though they had fallen from a height, and the sky
Is cracked like varnish. Hard to believe,
Our family tree
Seems to be making its mark everywhere.
I carry my head high
On a pike that shall be nameless.” #wsmerwin #poetry

I gave you sorrow to hang on your wall
Like a calendar in one color
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When my one chance is bleeding,
For speaking either #truth or comfort
I have no more tongue than a wound
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The lightning has shown me the scars of the future
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The lightning has shown me the scars of the future
#WSMerwin

I gave you sorrow to hang on your wall
Like a calendar in one color
#WSMerwin