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Friday, April 12, 2013

April is National Poetry Month


Willits Library National Poetry Month Poem of the Day – April 11, 2013

W.S. MERWIN

THE OVERPASS

You know how you
will be looking for somewhere
and come by surprise on a long cement bridge
sailing out over a wide
cement ditch carved deep into the hill
between whose banks the traffic is rushing
in both directions

in what is now the air above it
there was a pasture
beside dark woods
I saw it
and a swamp near the first trees
with a pump house hidden
in low green blackberry bushes
and mist coming off the upland marsh
first thing in the morning

and on the cold hill
a man and a boy
planting potatoes
with a mule keeping ahead of them
climbing the furrows
through the morning smelling of
wet grass
none of them seeing
the white bird flying over

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