FOR THE MANY DAWNS GIFTED

I'm translating Thomas Merton

before going to sleep, one poem

before dreaming, because I owe

this poem, a hundred poems

and more; in this pale light

of the earliest morning I owe

this poem of a limpid evening,

and so much, much more,

for the many dawns gifted.

07.03.2025

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