A Poet Reflects

February 25, 2012 with 38 notes
        tags: For a Coming Extinction. gray whale. The Lice. W. S. Merwin.
Gray whale Now that we are sending you to The End That great god Tell him That we who follow you invented forgiveness And forgive nothing —W. S. Merwin, first stanza of “For a Coming Extinction” from The Lice (Atheneum, 1977)

Gray whale
Now that we are sending you to The End
That great god
Tell him
That we who follow you invented forgiveness
And forgive nothing

—W. S. Merwin, first stanza of “For a Coming Extinction” from The Lice (Atheneum, 1977)

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    When I read poetry like this, it reminds me how justified my disdain for most poetry is. Because really, most poets...
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  18. zeenix said: YES
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