The poet is W.S. Merwin. He signed this after a reading at the 92nd Street Y. The poem is "Separation":
Separation
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
Previous "Favorite Poems" for National Poetry Month:
#27 - "The Flea" by John Donne
#28 - Poem Twenty from Pablo Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
#29 - "Magpie's Song" by Gary Snyder
#30 - "Eunoia" by Christian Bok
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