Poem-A-Day: Variation on a Theme by W. S. Merwin

Variation on a Theme by W. S. Merwin   Thank you my life long afternoon late in this spring that has no age my window above the river for the woman you led me to when it was time at last the words coming to me out of mid-air that carried me through the clear day and come even now to find me for old friends and echoes of them those mistakes only I could make homesickness that guides the plovers from somewhere they had loved before they knew they loved it to somewhere they had loved before they saw it thank you good body hand and eye and the places and moments known only to me revisiting once more complete just as they are and the morning stars I have seen and the dogs who are guiding me       From Collected Poems 1996-2011 by W.S. Merwin. Copyright © 2013 by W.S. Merwin. Reprinted by permission of The Library of America.     Poetry by Merwin     The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin (The Library of America, 2013)           Poem-A-Day Launched in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day archive.     May 29, 2013 W. S. Merwin is the author of numerous books of poetry now collected in The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin (The Library of America, 2013). He served as United States Poet Laureate from 2010 to 2011. Merwin lives in Hawaii. Related Poems First Things to Hand by Robert Pinsky Adolescence II by Rita Dove Home to Roost by Kay Ryan Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem In Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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