apropos all shelter sessions & smiles, present, past & future...happened upon this while reading W.S. Merwin
DOGS
Many times loneliness is someone else an absence then when loneliness is no longer someone else many times it is someone else's dog that you are keeping then when the dog disappears and the dog's absence you are alone at last and loneliness many times is yourself that absence but at last it may be that you are your own dog hungry on the way the one sound climbing a mountain higher than time
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apropos all shelter sessions & smiles, present, past & future...happened upon this while reading W.S. Merwin
DOGS
Many times loneliness
is someone else
an absence
then when loneliness is no longer
someone else many times
it is someone else's dog
that you are keeping
then when the dog disappears
and the dog's absence
you are alone at last
and loneliness many times
is yourself
that absence
but at last it may be
that you are your own dog
hungry on the way
the one sound climbing a
mountain
higher than time
W.S. Merwin
This is a beautiful poem, Alexandra. Thank you for sharing it.
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