THE NAILS
– W. S. Merwin, “The Nails”, Copyright © 1993 by W.S. Merwin, reprinted with permission of The Wylie Agency LLC. First published in The Paris Review in 1961, and later in his book The Moving Target in 1963. Now found in The Second Four Books of Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 1993).
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