What is the head <br /> A. Ash <br />What are the eyes <br /> A. The wells have fallen in and have <br /> Inhabitants <br />What are the feet <br /> A. Thumbs left after the auction <br />No what are the feet <br /> A. Under them the impossible road is moving <br /> Down which the broken necked mice push <br /> Balls of blood with their noses <br />What is the tongue <br /> A. The black coat that fell off the wall <br /> With sleeves trying to say something <br />What are the hands <br /> A. Paid <br />No what are the hands <br /> A. Climbing back down the museum wall <br /> To their ancestors the extinct shrews that will <br /> Have left a message <br />What is the silence <br /> A. As though it had a right to move <br />Who are the compatriots <br /> A. They make the stars of bone<br /><br />William Stanley Merwin<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/some-last-questions/
