“You that sang to me once sing to me now”

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That title is the first line of the first poem, “The Nomad Flute,”
in W.S. Merwin’s new collection The Shadow of Sirius
(Copper Canyon, 2009).

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evening

I’d intended to dwell with the poem. My later-today time with the “Introduction” of Ecstatic Quotidian was not what I had in mind for appreciating Merwin tonight. But his opening line does provide a good complement to what I’ve done.