William Stanley Merwin Morning Poems

• 1. A Letter To Ruth Stone
  Now that you have caught sight
  of the other side of darkness
  the invisible side
  so that you can tell
  ...
• 2. The Speed Of Light
  So gradual in those summers was the going
  of the age it seemed that the long days setting out
  when the stars faded over the mountains were not
  leaving us even as the birds woke in full song and the dew
  ...
• 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. Vehicles
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• 5. To The New Year
  st sunlight reaching down
  to touch the tips of a few
  high leaves that do not stir
  as though they had not noticed
  ...
• 6. The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence
  Moored to the same ring:
  The hour, the darkness and I,
  Our compasses hooded like falcons.
  
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• 7. Green Fields
  By this part of the century few are left who believe
  in the animals for they are not there in the carved parts
  of them served on plates and the pleas from the slatted trucks
  are sounds of shadows that possess no future
  ...

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