FALLING Long before daybreak none of the birds yet awake rain comes down with the sound of a huge wind rushing through the valley trees it comes down around us all at the same time and beyond it there is nothing it falls without hearing itself without knowing there is anyone here without seeing where […] Read More
“Nocturne II” by W.S. Merwin
NOCTURNE II August arrives in the dark we are not even asleep and it is here with a gust of rain rustling before it how can it be so late all at once somewhere the Perseids are falling toward us already at a speed that would burn us alive if we could believe it but […] Read More
“Recognitions” by W.S. Merwin
RECOGNITIONS Stories come to us like new senses a wave and an ash tree were sisters they had been separated since they were children but they went on believing in each other though each was sure that the other must be lost they cherished traits of themselves that they thought of as family resemblances features […] Read More
