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From W. S. Merwin's 'To the Sorrow String'. Also gospel phrases, thick with the blues. 3 beats.

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O string of sorrow
sing for nobody
yesterday and tomorrow
anybody's song

What others may play
you sound on your own
now grieving, now gay
invisible one

Root of a part
that nobody planned
fingered by heart
and an unseen hand

O string of sorrow. . .

Gut chord spanning
beginning and end
pass understanding
enemy, friend

The joys that bear you
no one can explain
and the tears that hear you
no one can restrain

O string of sorrow
sing for nobody
yesterday and tomorrow
anybody's song

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from REACH IN THIS DREAM: Lots of Debts to Poets, released April 28, 2015

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As E Dickinson says:

Nature is what we know
but have no art to say
so impotent our wisdom is
to her simplicity

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