the crows were calling around me to white air
I could hear their wings dripping and hear small birds with
lights
breaking in their tongues the cold soaked through me I
was able
after that morning to believe stories that once
would have been closed to me I saw a carriage go under
the oaks there in full day and vanish I watched animals there
I sat with friends in the shade they have all disappeared
most of the stories have to do with vanishing
by WS Merwin. final lines of the poem.