WITNESS
I want to tell what the forests
were like
I will have to speak
in a forgotten language
– W.S. Merwin, from his book The Rain in the Trees (1998, A.A. Knopf) and later included in The Essential W.S. Merwin (2017, Copper Canyon Press). Copyright © 1998 by W. S. Merwin. Used with permission of the publisher.
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