Poems by William Stanley Merwin
Yesterday
... I say the last time I saw my fatherhe says the last time I saw my father ...
Air
... Nowhere.Young as I am, old as I am,I forget tomorrow, the blind man ...
My Friends
... awn the stars on their flag will vanishThe water will turn up their footprints and the day will rise ...
For The Anniversary Of My Death
... Like the beam of a lightless starThen I will no longer ...
Unknown Bird
... would have been listeningit is not native here ...
When You Go Away
... That has no place in the yearsAnd at night wrapped in the bed of ashes ...
Any Time
... where it has never stirred from ...
The River Of Bees
... e noise of death drawing waterWe are the echo of the futureOn the door it says what to do to survive ...
Wish
... The star in my Hand is fallingAll the uniforms know what's no useMay I bow to Necessity not To her hirelings ...
The Speed Of Light
... and the air we could not hold had come to be there all the time ...
For A Coming Extinction
... On another dayThe bewilderment will diminish like an echo ...
Green Fields
... a child and his mother was standing there then the wall would close ...
Before The Flood
... to the singing of the streetcars ...
The Source
... he thought those notes could be the music for ...
Some Last Questions
... To their ancestors the extinct shrews that will ...
