GOOD NIGHT Sleep softly my old lovemy beauty in the darknight is a dream we haveas you know as you know night is a dream you knowan old love in the darkaround you as you gowithout end as you know in the night where you gosleep softly my old lovewithout end in the darkin the […] Read More
“Lights Out” by W.S. Merwin
LIGHTS OUT The old grieving autumn goes on calling to its summer the valley is calling to other valleys beyond the ridge each star is roaring alone into darkness there is not a sound in the whole night – W.S. Merwin, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Shadow of Sirius (2008, Copper Canyon Press). Used […] Read More
“Falling” by W.S. Merwin
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
