“The Inevitable Lightness” by W.S. Merwin

Published in: 

The Rain in the Trees, 1987
 

(Knopf)

The roads and everything on them fly up and dissolve
a net rises from the world
the cobweb in which it was dying
and the earth breathes naked with its new scars
and sky everywhere

The Merwin Conservancy's logo; image displays a palm frond oriented vertically