The Gladdest Thing » W.S. Merwin http://thegladdestthing.com a poem a day, more or less Sat, 12 Jun 2010 03:57:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Utterance http://thegladdestthing.com/poems/utterance http://thegladdestthing.com/poems/utterance#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:24:02 +0000 Michelle McGinnis http://thegladdestthing.com/poems/utterance

Sitting over words
very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing
not far
like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark
the echo of everything that has ever
been spoken
still spinning its one syllable
between the earth and silence

— W. S. Merwin

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