83. slocum's razor

" '...I am Arnaut who weep and go singing,
with anguish of mind I see my old folly
and with joy see before me the hoped-for day...' "

--Merwin's Purgatorio, XXVI.

Two memories of Merwin. (via 3quarks daily)

night skunk smell
guitar distortion
apologies
i could not then have given

she always wrote checks
in her small, neat handwriting
to Easter Seals, for the animals,
& after i spent a summer
roaming the country alone,
for runaway children

Recension C.