SEPARATION
W. S. Merwin*
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
*Merwin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, recipient of the National Book Award, and 17th United States Poet Laureate, died last Friday at the age of 91. “Separation” was published in the January 1962 issue of Poetry magazine.
