“The Dream Again” by W.S. Merwin

Published in: 

Migration: New & Selected Poems, 2005 ;  The Lice, 1967 ;  The Second Four Books of Poems, 1993
 

(Atheneum)

 

(Copper Canyon Press)

I take the road that bears leaves in the mountains
I grow hard to see then I vanish entirely
On the peaks it is summer

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