News at Eleven: For almost three decades, [W.S.] Merwin

has lived on Maui, with his wife, on what was once a Hawaiian pineapple plantation. He's ventured more deeply into Buddhism, into the preservation of rain forests, while maintaining his abiding belief in poetry--as he once told the journalist Bill Moyers--"as an expression of faith in the integrity of the senses and of the imagination."

a feathered breath a bird
flies in at the open window
then vanishes leaving me
believing what I do not see

from American-Statesman: A Poet Laureate, in his prime

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