" There are spirits that come back to us
when we have grown into another age
we recognize them just as they leave us
we remember them when we cannot hear them
some of them come from the bodies of birds
some arrive unnoticed like forgetting
they do not recall earlier lives
and there are distant voices still hoping to find us

— W.S. Merwin, “Voices Over Water,” Garden Time. (Copper Canyon Press September 13, 2016) "

― W.S. Merwin , Garden Time