<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">A Letter to Ruth Stone</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Now that you have caught sight <br class="">
of the other side of darkness <br class="">
the invisible side <br class="">
so that you can tell <br class="">
it is rising <br class="">
first thing in the morning <br class="">
and know it is there <br class="">
all through the day</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">another sky <br class="">
clear and unseen <br class="">
has begun to loom <br class="">
in your words <br class="">
and another light is growing <br class="">
out of their shadows <br class="">
you can hear it</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">now you will be able <br class="">
to envisage beyond <br class="">
any words of mine <br class="">
the color of these leaves <br class="">
that you never saw <br class="">
awake above the still valley <br class="">
in the small hours <br class="">
under the moon <br class="">
three nights past the full <br class="">
<br class="">
you know there was never <br class="">
a name for that color </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- W.S. Merwin</p></body></html>