<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; max-width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 22px;">A Last Look</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; max-width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 22px;"><br></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; max-width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 22px;">Even the words are going somewhere urban<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">where they hope to find friends<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">waiting for them</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px; margin-top: var(--four-spacer); margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; max-width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 22px;">some of the friends will think of trees as pleasant in a minor way<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">much alike after all<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">to us</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px; margin-top: var(--four-spacer); margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; max-width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 22px;">some of the friends will never be aware of a single tree<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">they will live in a world without a leaf<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">where the rain is misfortune</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px; margin-top: var(--four-spacer); margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; max-width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 22px;">all the languages until now have flowed<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">from leaf to leaf<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">and have gone like faces</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px; margin-top: var(--four-spacer); margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; max-width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 22px;">gone like the stone porches of small houses<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">and the smell of the forest<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">in the water of summer</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px; margin-top: var(--four-spacer); margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; max-width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 22px;"><br></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px; margin-top: var(--four-spacer); margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; max-width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 22px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- W.S. Merwin</div></div></body></html>