somethingdarker | Potential Titles: W.S. Merwin

Decipher the language of insects - W.S. Merwin "After the Alphabets"

They can sing with wings - W.S. Merwin "After the Alphabets"

In a grammar without horizons - W.S. Merwin "After the Alphabets"

On all sides the sea that brought us - W.S. Merwin "Anniversary on the Island"

Passes like an underground river - W.S. Merwin "The Archaic Maker"

My breathing wave - W.S. Merwin "At the Bend"

My ear of shadow - W.S. Merwin "At the Bend"

For the dead do not listen - W.S. Merwin "At the Same Time"

With this sky gone - W.S. Merwin "At the Same Time"

Don't lose your arrogance yet - W.S. Merwin "Berryman"

In the mind of water - W.S. Merwin "Beyond Question"

After a long time as water - W.S. Merwin "The Biology of Art"

The moment when the ghosts go home - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"

Towers of empty mirrors - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"

Running clouds behind hands of willows - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"

Music next to my bones - W.S. Merwin "A Birthday"

The way the night tastes - W.S. Merwin "Blueberries After Dark"

Splintered with a new light - W.S. Merwin "A Broken Glass"

Without hesitation or stars - W.S. Merwin "Cargo"

Carry no questions - W.S. Merwin "Cargo"

Beyond the landscapes of other times - W.S. Merwin "Cargo"

An older utterance out of the shadows - W.S. Merwin "The Causeway"

When the Goths were leaving - W.S. Merwin "The Causeway"

Translates from those rags of sound - W.S. Merwin "The Causeway"

In the kingdom of their voices - W.S. Merwin "The Causeway"

Some far light in the zodiac - W.S. Merwin "The Chinese Mountain Fox"

Used to cast old tales and illusions - W.S. Merwin "The Chinese Mountain Fox"

The sounds remembered by water - M.S. Merwin "The Cisterns"

Began a pond of time - W.S. Merwin "Clear Water"

Kept by an unseen giant - W.S. Merwin "Clear Water"

That seemed transparent - W.S. Merwin "A Codex"

The whole grammar of waiting - W.S. Merwin "A Codex"

The sound of blue at night - W.S. Merwin "Coming to Hear"

The sea remembering all of its waves - W.S. Merwin "Coming to the Morning"

Always a sky made of water - W.S. Merwin "Coming to the Morning"

A blood kinship with rain - W.S. Merwin "Coming to the Morning"

Holding reflections in their hands - M.S. Merwin "Commemoratives"

Had fallen away from the road underneath - W.S. Merwin "The Crust"

As the road opened under them - W.S. Merwin "The Crust"

The eggshell of dark before - W.S. Merwin "The Curlew"

Untouched across the cold - W.S. Merwin "The Curlew"

Not glimpsed this season - W.S. Merwin "Day without a Name"

On the long sky of midsummer - W.S. Merwin "The Duck"

Only the weight of rain - M.S. Merwin "Entry"

This heir of conjurers - W.S. Merwin "Escape Artist"

Guide beyond time and knowledge - W.S. Merwin "Eye of Shadow"

That neither answers nor forgets - W.S. Merwin "The First Days"

An unchanged astonishment - W.S. Merwin "The First Days"

Wading into their shadows - M.S. Merwin "Gate"

Shadows that possess no future - M.S. Merwin "Green Fields"

A distance from either pain or patience - W.S. Merwin "Harm's Way"

The hushed fox waits - W.S. Merwin "Harm's Way"

Belonged to distance - W.S. Merwin "Heartland"

Like rumours of dreaded news - M.S. Merwin "Ill Wind"

A net rises from the world - W.S. Merwin "The Inevitable Lightness"

Nothing is real until it can be sold - W.S. Merwin "Journey"

No more hidden than the air itself - W.S. Merwin "Just Now"

In the dark before I remember - W.S. Merwin "Just This"

And the ages of rain - W.S. Merwin "Just This"

Reading by lightning - W.S. Merwin "Just This"

A new knowledge of silence - W.S. Merwin "Lament for the Maker"

Their echo growing deeper - W.S. Merwin "A Letter to Su Tung-p'o"

The silence after your questions - W.S. Merwin "A Letter to Su Tung-p'o"

The rusted towers haunting one hill - M.S. Merwin "Letters"

Roads written in sleep - W.S. Merwin "Long Afternoon Light"

A moment of what is ours - W.S. Merwin "Long Afternoon Light"

As lengthening shadows merge - W.S. Merwin "Long Afternoon Light"

An unfamiliar name under a few high clouds - W.S. Merwin "Mementos"

The waves go on overflowing - W.S. Merwin "Mementos"
While the trees are flying - W.S. Merwin "Mementos"

Descendants of roots and water - W.S. Merwin "The Mole"

Opened from the darkness afterward - W.S. Merwin "The Mole"

Have wakened in a wind of messages - W.S. Merwin "Night Above the Avenue"

To walk in the dark together - W.S. Merwin "Night with No Moon"

Its denials and pure promises - W.S. Merwin "Night with No Moon"

Born to brief reflection - W.S. Merwin "Nocturne"

And the light is old again - W.S. Merwin "The Nomad Flute"

Like a light innocent of measure - W.S. Merwin "Note"

Naked and never looking back - W.S. Merwin "Note"

Helpless not to ask - W.S. Merwin "A Note from the Cimmerians"

When time had not discovered them - M.S. Merwin "Oak Time"

Slow-danced with the ice - M.S. Merwin "Oak Time"

The ivy knew the way - M.S. Merwin "Oak Time"

And the wren wakes into singing - M.S. Merwin "Old Walls"

In a new perspective of silence - W.S. Merwin "The Old Year"

The heart of a whole horizon - W.S. Merwin "The Old Year"

Empty pools and dry waterfalls - W.S. Merwin "One Valley"

Up the stone like an unmoored flame - W.S. Merwin "One Valley"

Deep snow from which the light comes - W.S. Merwin "Paper"

In all that unpeopled day - W.S. Merwin "Paper"

Carried water in their voices - W.S. Merwin "Parts of a Tune"

Drying the depths - W.S. Merwin "Photographer"

A day with no colors except brown - W.S. Merwin "Print Fallen Out of Somewhere"

With its unheard crickets - W.S. Merwin "Print Fallen Out of Somewhere"

Threads of old sound heard - W.S. Merwin "Remembering"

Rusting around stopped notes - M.S. Merwin "Returning Season"

In the light of finished stars - M.S. Merwin "Returning Season"

A fine veil of whispered voices - W.S. Merwin "A Ring"

The frayed waves of absence - W.S. Merwin "A Ring"

The static of knowledge - W.S. Merwin "A Ring"

An arid net into sky - W.S. Merwin "The Rose Beetle"

A destination only until attained - W.S. Merwin "The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence"

The sky vaulted as a heart - W.S. Merwin "The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence"

How the weeks walk into shadows - W.S. Merwin "The Solstice"

Snake with a circle of fire - W.S. Merwin "The Stranger"

Journeyed like a day in daylight - W.S. Merwin "Suite in the Key of Forgetting"

The cave of the dragon's seed - W.S. Merwin "Suite in the Key of Forgetting"

Fog with the voices of birds - W.S. Merwin "Syllables"

View the damage without regretting - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Capture in that second sight - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

No longer ply the living water - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Glow of a distant promise - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Remnants handed down as patchwork - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Any question would extinguish it - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

His eyes with the day inside - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Carrying the night back - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Keeping time with the thread of light - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Shaken veils still whispering - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

That choiring of water - W.S. Merwin "That Music"

The wren of morning - W.S. Merwin "That Music"

Their conversations of afterthoughts - M.S. Merwin "Threshold"

The morning in its antiquity - W.S. Merwin "To the Insects"

Time with all its leaves - W.S. Merwin "Traces"

The silence in the books - W.S. Merwin "Traces"

Will know how green is spelled - W.S. Merwin "Tracing the Letters"

I believe it even in the dark - W.S. Merwin "Tracing the Letters"

While reflected lights flowed backward - W.S. Merwin "227 Waverly Place"

Between the earth and silence - W.S. Merwin "Utterance"

On the bridge with one end - M.S. Merwin "Vixen"

A wren scolding from the rocks - M.S. Merwin "Walkers"

The mossed hush of ruins - M.S. Merwin "Walkers"

The edge of a silence about to become - M.S. Merwin "Walkers"

Not a place made for knowledge - W.S. Merwin "Walled Place above the River"

The apricots from a thousand trees ripening - W.S. Merwin "West Wall"

Emerged empty and entire - M.S. Merwin "The West Window"

Across the wide sound of being - W.S. Merwin "What the Bridges Hear"

With lights breaking in their tongues - M.S. Merwin "White Morning"

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