“In The Meantime,” by W.S. Merwin

IN THE MEANTIME

Day after day this summer’s rain
keeps them from setting up
our tombstone
let us stay home together my love
and not know
as the rain does not know where it came from
and the sea that is
all around us
does not know its beginning

– W.S. Merwin, from his book Garden Time (Copper Canyon Press, 2016)