AT THE SAME TIME
While we talk
thousands of languages are listening
saying nothing
while we close a door
flocks of birds are flying through winters
of endless light
while we sign our names
more of us
lets go
and will never answer
– W.S. Merwin, published in Poetry (December 1970)
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