William Stanley Merwin Silence Poems

• 1. Some Last Questions
  What is the head
  A. Ash
  What are the eyes
  A. The wells have fallen in and have
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• 2. For The Anniversary Of My Death
  Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
  When the last fires will wave to me
  And the silence will set out
  Tireless traveller
  ...
• 3. 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
  ...
• 4. A Codex
  It was a late book given up for lost
  again and again with its sentences
  
  bare at last and phrases that seemed transparent
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• 5. Air
  Naturally it is night.
  Under the overturned lute with its
  One string I am going my way
  Which has a strange sound.
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• 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. Whenever I Go There
  Whenever I go there everything is changed
  
  The stamps on the bandages the titles
  Of the professors of water
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