“December Among the Vanished” by W.S. Merwin
The old snow gets up and moves taking its
Birds with it
The beasts hide in the knitted walls
From the winter that lipless man
Hinges echo but nothing opens
A silence before this one
Has left its broken huts facing the pastures
Through their stone roofs the snow
And the darkness walk down
In one of them I sit with a dead shepherd
And watch his lambs
