Book: Appreciating contemporary art

W.S. Merwin: A Single Autumn

Great poems #3

(Artwork by Jakob Zaaiman)

A Single Autumn

The year my parents died
one that summer one that fall
three months and three days apart
I moved into the house
where they had lived their last years
it had never been theirs
and was still theirs in that way
for a while
echoes in every room…