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W. S. Merwin: The Solstice

Happiness

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:

Cats purring in the library

The whole world stretches out around us

In the mood..

for a bit of Blake

John Burnside

Les Murray: 1938 – 2019

W.S. Merwin 1927-2019

 

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:

The meaning of Christmas Day

Ash on an old man’s sleeve…….