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
“The Laughing Thrush” by W.S. Merwin
THE LAUGHING THRUSH O nameless joy of the morning tumbling upward note by note out of the night and the hush of the dark valley and out of whatever has not been there song unquestioning and unbounded yes this is the place and the one time in the whole of before and after with all […] Read More
“Worn Words” by W.S. Merwin
WORN WORDS The late poems are the ones I turn to first now following a hope that keeps beckoning me waiting somewhere in the lines almost in plain sight it is the late poems that are made of words that have come the whole way they have been there — W.S. Merwin, from his […] Read More
