If, like Gert, you’ve been out of your usual whirl of cocktail parties, media appearances and clamourings for your advice on all sorts of subjects, you may appreciate this poem Happiness, which popped into our mailbox courtesy of the Paris Review’s Daily Poem service:
The whole world stretches out around us
Continue reading Cats purring in the library
The great W.S. Merwin died on March 15 at the age of 91. His best-known poem perhaps is For The Anniversary Of My Death: Continue reading W.S. Merwin 1927-2019
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