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“ Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. ”

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A garden is made of hope.

~ W.s. Merwin

part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I learn to miss you

~ W.s. Merwin

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

~ W.s. Merwin

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

~ W.s. Merwin