SPRING
The glass stems of the clouds are breaking
the gray flowers are caught up
and carried in silence to their invisible mountain
a hair of music is flying
over the line of cold lakes
from which our eyes were made
everything in the world has been lost and lost
but soon we will find it again
and understand what it told us when we loved it
— W.S. Merwin, from his book Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment (Atheneum, 1973), also found in the National Book Award-winning collection Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2005).
Copyright ©2005 by W. S. Merwin. Used by permission of the publishers.
Randi says
Even in paradise anhedonia can enter. But his last 2 lines offer uplift.