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Poem of the Week
July 2026
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Photo Credit: Lowell Jons
THE ROOM
- W.S. Merwin
I think all this is somewhere in myself
The cold room unlit before dawn
Containing a stillness such as attends death
And from a corner the sounds of a small bird trying
from time to time to fly a few beats in the dark
You would say it was dying it is immortal
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