Rebel Girl's Poetry Corner: "its morning finding the first time"

Earlier this week, the poet W.S. Merwin was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize for the collection, The Shadow of Sirius —some 38 years after he won his first Pulitzer for The Carrier of Ladders.


Here's a poem from his 2007 collection, Present Company. It seems just right for today even if it is still April, not quite May.


To This May

They know so much more now about
the heart we are told but the world
still seems to come one at a time
one day one year one season and here
it is spring once more with its birds
nesting in the holes in the walls
its morning finding the first time
its light pretending not to move
always beginning as it goes