What Remains

In each world they may put us
farther apart
do not die
as this world is made I might
live forever
-W.S. Merwin (1968)

The Sadness

Thinking of you I lean over silent water
this head
appears
the earth turns
the sky has no motion
one by one my eyelashes free themselves
and fall
and meet themselves for the first time
the last time

-W.S. Merwin, 1970