William Stanley Merwin

Here you will find thePoemWhenever I Go Thereof poet William Stanley Merwin

Whenever I Go There

Whenever I go there everything is changed The stamps on the bandages the titles Of the professors of water The portrait of Glare the reasons for The white mourning In new rocks new insects are sitting With the lights off And once more I remember that the beginning Is broken No wonder the addresses are torn To which I make my way eating the silence of animals Offering snow to the darkness Today belongs to few and tomorrow to no one