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To the Margin

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Following the black
footprints the tracks
of words that have passed that way
before me I come
again and again to
your blank shore

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Just before Thanksgiving in 1960, The Nation published W.S. Merwin's poem for the holiday.

This is the year
when the swallows did not come back

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