Thursday, March 30, 2006

To a Reflection - W.S. Merwin

You are what we believe
even if we know better
seeing is believing
though you write backwards
your left our right
so that we never can read you
if there is any message
directed toward us from

the other side which we
cannot touch cannot reach
and can see only from here
where there is something you seem
to be showing us over
and over again without
a sound as though you were
the light itself returning

apparently to the same place



From Present Company, Poems by W.S. Merwin


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