William Stanley Merwin:
(September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019).
American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin’s unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, his writing influence derived from an interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Residing in a rural part of Maui, Hawaii, he wrote prolifically and was dedicated to the restoration of the island’s rainforests.
This is what I have heard at last—the wind in December lashing the old trees with rain unseen, rain racing along the tiles under the moon, wind rising and falling, wind with many clouds, trees in the night wind.
I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.
Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
