Monday, April 12, 2021

The Morning Hills


The Morning Hills

As those who are gone now
 keep wandering through our words
 sounds of paper following them
 at untold distances
 so I wake again in the old house
 where at times I have believed
 that I was waiting for myself
 and many years have gone
 taking with them the semblance of youth
 reason after reason ranges of blue hills 
who did I think was missing
 those days neither here nor there
 my own dog waiting 
to be known 

-- W.S. Merwin

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