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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Merwin and Matt

How many times Sam spit up on me today: 4
How many diapers I changed: 6
How many hugs I gave: countless
How I feel holding him: wonderful

The thing about Matt...He doesn't talk a lot, but I wish he didn't have to go to work in the morning.

When You Go Away
by W. S. Merwin

When you go away the wind clicks around to the north
The painters work all day but at sundown the paint falls
Showing the black walls
The clock goes back to striking the same hour
That has no place in the years

And at night wrapped in a bed of ashes
In one breath I wake
It is the time when the beards of the dead get their growth
I remember that I am falling
That I am the reason
And that my words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy

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