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Saturday, August 30, 2014

W. S. Merwin: "By the Front Door"




                                       Rain through the morning
                                       and in the long pool a toad singing
                                       happiness old as water



"By the Front Door" by W. S. Merwin, from The Moon Before Morning. © Copper Canyon Press, 2014.

Art credit: Detail from "Common Frog Croaking," photograph by © Chris Grady (originally color).

 

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