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W.S. Merwin - Air

Naturally it is night.
Under the overturned lute with its
One string I am going my way
Which has a strange sound.

This way the dust, that way the dust.
I listen to both sides
But I keep right on.
I remember the leaves sitting in judgment
And then winter.

I remember the rain with its bundle of roads.
The rain taking all its roads.
Nowhere.

Young as I am, old as I am,

I forget tomorrow, the blind man.
I forget the life among the buried windows.
The eyes in the curtains.
The wall
Growing through the immortelles.
I forget silence
The owner of the smile.

This must be what I wanted to be doing,
Walking at night between the two deserts,
Singing.

Added: on June 14th, 2005 at 11:01 AM | Viewed: 3617 times | Comments and analysis of Air by W.S. Merwin Comments (1)


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Poet: W.S. Merwin
Poem: Air
Poem of the Day: Mar 4 2005

Comment 1 of 1, added on June 14th, 2005 at 11:01 AM.

Thank you for writing a poem about air. I hope you don't mind me using it for World Lit. for a project. I put your name right there under it so i didn't steal it. And again thank you!

Carrime from United States

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