Thanks by W.S. Merwin

Thanks

by W.S. Merwin

published in Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)

Listen

with the night falling we are saying thank you

we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings

we are running out of the glass rooms

with our mouths full of food to look at the sky

and say thank you

we are standing by the water thanking it

standing by the windows looking out

in our directions

back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging

after funerals we are say...