Now that you have caught sight <br />of the other side of darkness <br />the invisible side <br />so that you can tell <br />it is rising <br />first thing in the morning <br />and know it is there <br />all through the day <br /> <br />another sky <br />clear and unseen <br />has begun to loom <br />in your words <br />and another light is growing <br />out of their shadows <br />you can hear it <br /> <br />now you will be able <br />to envisage beyond <br />any words of mine <br />the color of these leaves <br />that you never saw <br />awake above the still valley <br />in the small hours <br />under the moon <br />three nights past the full <br /> <br />you know there was never <br />a name for that color <br /> <br />From 'The Shadow Of Sirius' <br />Publisher: Copper Canyon Press (September 1, 2008)<br /><br />William Stanley Merwin<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-letter-to-ruth-stone/
