
W.S. Merwin's "Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise"
The Daily Poem
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The Orole, a Place Without Grief
Merwin's poems often have a sort of timelessness about them. He says, the oriole warns of another life, warns him that he is awake. The chanterells seem to have pushed him through sleep and beckoned him,. To search for them in the mountains. And then the poem closes with the couplet, where else am i walking even now? Looking for me?"
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