[MD] Paper

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Paper
   by  W. S. Merwin 

What an idea
that you can put it on a piece of paper
what is a piece of paper and how can you tell
put it on a piece of paper

at the beginning
there are the tall sub-polar mountains
above a peninsula
set in a plain of ice
under deep snow
from which the light comes
white no longer there
put it on that paper

the sound of the runners
in all that unpeopled day
at one with the wind and the breathing of the white dogs
and the wind wiping out the tracks at once
the white earth turning around and the sense of climbing
put it on that paper

everything is white so it can disappear
everything that is not white
is alone
the colors are all white
the night is white in a place not remembered
everything is the same color as the other planets
here in this place hard to see
on a piece of paper



 
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