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“Separation” by W. S. Merwin

On December 16, 2014April 2, 2019 By Christina's WordsIn Poetry

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.

W. S. Merwin, “Separation” from The Second Four Books of Poems (Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 1993). Copyright © 1993 by W. S. Merwin

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