The Graceful Poet
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As I think about
my American heroes
still living in my mind,
I can't help thinking about
recently deceased poet
W. S. Merwin,
Pulitzer Prize winner
U.S. Poet Laureate.
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On May 10, 2013,
I had the good fortune
joining young NYC friends
at 92nd Street Y poetic banquet.
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We listened
a great poet love out-loud
poetry, humanist, and art.
Unsurprisingly, he talked
brilliantly
the length and breadth
of last millenniums years
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He read a few poems
(from memory)
he was gracefully
going blind.
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"Now all my teachers
are dead except silence."
Steve Heins