To Being Late

By W.S. Merwin

This article appeared in the July 18, 2005 edition of The Nation.

June 29, 2005

Again again you are
the right time after all

not according to
however we planned it

unforeseen and yet
only too well known
mislaid horizon
where we come to ourselves
as though we had been expected

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