If you are working on your own book at the moment - W.S. Merwin
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Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde creates clouds in a room, playing on the idea of a transitional sculpture. |
To the Book
Go on then
in your own time
this is as far
as I will take you
I am leaving your words with you
as though they had been yours
all the time
of course you are not finished
how can you be finished
when the morning begins again
or the moon cries
even the words are not finished
though they may claim to be
never mind
I will not be
listening when they say
how you should be
different in some way
you will be able to tell them
that the fault was all mine
whoever I was
when I made you up
--- W.S. Merwin
I love this poem and don't think I've read it since that day at your house! Thank you for posting it...I needed to read it all over again. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Midge for introducing me to this. Do you know which of Merwin's books it comes from? I had told Edge students about it but couldn't find it and then sent it to Wendy Call so she could read it to the Edge folks at the end of the day. I love how the poem keeps extending out in connecting circles!
ReplyDeleteLove this poem.
ReplyDeleteI dug around and found this link: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/present-company-w-s-merwin/1101160002.
If you scroll down through the Table of Contents, "To the Book" is listed as the last poem.
You're amazing! Thank you!
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