William Stanley Merwin Black Poems

• 1. Some Last Questions
  What is the head
  A. Ash
  What are the eyes
  A. The wells have fallen in and have
  ...
• 2. Identity
  When Hans Hofmann became a hedgehog
  somewhere in a Germany that has
  vanished with its forests and hedgerows
  Shakespeare would have been a young actor
  ...
• 3. The Source
  There in the fringe of trees between
  the upper field and the edge of the one
  below it that runs above the valley
  one time I heard in the early
  ...
• 4. For A Coming Extinction
  Gray whale
  Now that we are sinding you to The End
  That great god
  Tell him
  ...
• 5. Another River
  The friends have gone home far up the valley
  of that river into whose estuary
  the man from England sailed in his own age
  in time to catch sight of the late forests
  ...
• 6. Vehicles
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• 7. When You Go Away
  When you go away the wind clicks around to the north
  The painters work all day but at sundown the paint falls
  Showing the black walls
  The clock goes back to striking the same hour
  ...
• 8. It Is March
  It is March and black dust falls out of the books
  Soon I will be gone
  The tall spirit who lodged here has
  Left already
  ...

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