the water touching its roots

 

Holy Saturday... we've had some lovely Spring weather, and the garden is coming to life.

Here is a poem by W.S. Merwin:

PLACE

On the last day of the world

I would want to plant a tree

 

what for

not for the fruit

 

the tree that bears the fruit

is not the one that was planted

 

I want the tree that stands

in the earth for the first time

 

with the sun already

going down

 

and the water

touching its roots

 

in the earth full of the dead

and the clouds passing

 

one by one

over its leaves

 

— W.S. Merwin, from his book The Rain in the Trees (1998, A.A. Knopf).

Copyright © 1988 by W. S. Merwin.  Used by permission of the publisher.

 

artist : Carlo Formara