On Lines by W. S. Merwin
....and each waking to you
when I open my eyes you are what I wanted to see.
From "A Birthday" by W. S. Merwin (Flower & Hand)
After only three months, my boyfriend proposed to me, at dawn, with these lines. I'd turned him down six times before, but this time…what an aubade! Ten years later, early one Saturday morning, he repeated these lines to me on the birth of our daughter, Raleigh.
Elizabeth Bishop writes in "Filling Station," that "somebody loves us all." When I recall these lines of Merwin and Harvey's earnest face, I remember who and when and always.
2 comments:
Dear LORD, that's romantic. I'd say yes to that, too [Yo, girlfriend, take note].
It certainly was romantic.
BTW did you see the give-away for Life/Lines? Isn't that the same designer of the Rumi ring?
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