A Letter to Ruth Stone - W.S. Merwin

[Larry Robinson]

A Letter to Ruth Stone

Now that you have caught sight 
of the other side of darkness 
the invisible side 
so that you can tell 
it is rising 
first thing in the morning 
and know it is there 
all through the day

another sky 
clear and unseen 
has begun to loom 
in your words 
and another light is growing 
out of their shadows 
you can hear it

now you will be able 
to envisage beyond 
any words of mine 
the color of these leaves 
that you never saw 
awake above the still valley 
in the small hours 
under the moon 
three nights past the full 

you know there was never 
a name for that color 

	- W.S. Merwin
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