Looking Up in the Garden
These trees have no names
whatever we call them
where will the meanings be
when the words are forgotten
will I see again
where are you
will you be sitting
in Fran’s living room
will the dream come back
will I know where I am
will there be birds
— W.S. Merwin, from The Moon Before Morning, 2014, published by Copper Canyon Press
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