The sky said I am watching
to see what you
can make out of nothing
I was looking up and I said
I thought you
were supposed to be doing that
the sky said Many
are clinging to that
I am giving you a chance
I was looking up and I said
I am the only chance I have
then the sky did not answer
and here we are
with our names for the days
the vast days that do not listen to us
— W.S. Merwin, from his book The Moon Before Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)
Featured photo is by José Carlos Cortizo Pérez and used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License. The original photo can be found here.
