Audio: Hear W. S. Merwin read this poem (0:24) Vehicles (1994) The Speed of Light (1994) End of a Day (1994) Green Fields (1995) Another River (1997) Echoing Light (1997) Remembering (1997) Shore Birds (1998) Before the Flood (1998) Unknown Bird (1999) Any Time (1999) Term (1999) Also see: Swimming Up Into Poetry The Atlantic's longtime poetry editor reflects on the career of W. S. Merwin, whose long association with the magazine spans great distances of geography and art (August 1997) |
Remembering (1997)
There are threads of old sound heard over and over
phrases of Shakespeare or Mozart the slender
wands of the auroras playing out from them
into dark time the passing of a few
migrants high in the night far from the ancient flocks
far from the rest of the words far from the instruments
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