When You Go Away
W.S. Merwin * Track #1 On The Lice
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When You Go Away by W.S. Merwin
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This is the picture that The Merwin Conservancy chose to accompany the poem when they selected it in 2016.
This poem was initially published in his 1967 book, The Lice, which was later reissued in 2017 at its 50th-anniversary by Copper Canyon Press.
This fiftieth anniversary edition revisits a gro...
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When you go away the wind clicks around to the north
The painters work all day but at sundown the paint falls
Showing the black walls
The clock goes back to striking the same hour
That has no place in the years
And at night wrapped in the bed of ashes
In one breath I wake
It is the time when the beards of the dead get their growth
I remember that I am falling
That I am the reason
And that my words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy
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When You Go Away was written by W.S. Merwin.
When did W.S. Merwin release When You Go Away?
W.S. Merwin released When You Go Away on Fri May 13 1966.