Unknown Bird
"Out of the dry days
through the dusty leaves
far across the valley
those few notes never
heard here before
one fluted phrase
floating over its
wandering secret
all at once wells up
somewhere else
and is gone before it
goes on fallen into
its own echo leaving
a hollow through the air
that is dry as before..."
March 2019, Environmentalist, poet, W. S.Merwin died. His poetry awakened in me a relationship to nature, opened my eyes, inspired my work. I mourn his passing.