“To Maoli as the Year Ends” by W.S. Merwin

Published in: 

The Pupil, 2001
 

(Knopf)

Now that I think you no longer hear me
you go on listening to me
as you used to listen to music
old friend what are you hearing
that I do not hear though I listen
through the light of thirty thousand days
you still hear something that escapes me

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