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“Whenever I Go There” by W. S. Merwin 🇺🇸 (30 Sep 1927 – 15 Mar 2019)
Whenever I go there everything is changed
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The stamps on the bandages the titles
Of the professors of water
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The portrait of Glare the reasons for
The white mourning
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In new rocks new insects are sitting
With the lights off
And once more I remember that the beginning
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Is broken
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No wonder the addresses are torn
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To which I make my way eating the silence of animals
Offering snow to the darkness
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Today belongs to few and tomorrow to no one