Poems

Twilight

By W. S. Merwin

Oh you are never tame
fire on a mountain
eyes beside water
first day of petals

lying across the bed
in afternoon rainlight
arms of evening
wherever we are is a shore



"Twilight" by W.S. Merwin. Copyright © 1997 by W.S. Merwin, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.