W. S. Merwin 의 시 "Rain Light"

Rain Light  / W. S. Merwin

All day the stars watch from long ago
my mother said I am going now
when you are alone you will be all right
whether or not you know you will know
look at the old house in the dawn rain
all the flowers are forms of water
the sun reminds them through a white cloud
touches the patchwork spread on the hill
the washed colors of the afterlife
that lived there long before you were born
see how they wake without a question
even though the whole world is burning

  

지금 내겐 특별한 느낌으로 읽힌다. Jane Hirshfield 는 이렇게

쓰고 있다: "... remembering the death of his mother, this

poet moves nowhere in any external sense, only more

deeply into where he already is."

(문장부호 없는  이 시인의 시는 번역이 그만큼 더 어렵겠다.)