do is stitched with its color. >> stay tuned for, "a conversation with america's poet laureate: w.s. merwin next. merwin: you know, when you lose a child or a parent, or a lover, it is bitter -- uh, bitter, and you know you can't you know that you can't express it, but you have -- you have to, you have to say something. that's the origin of language, is trying to say something, trying to express something that is inexpressible. and i think that's the origin of ry

w.s. merwin's home and garden will now be preserved through the newly established merwin conservancy, as ay that reflects the artistic vision and sustainability practices of one of america's most well-loved poets. >> i think that after a certain time, which is fairly soon after finishing a poem, i'm a different person. i'm not the person who wrote that poem. and i can be -- i can be clever, and sort of improve it in ways. but it won't work. i keep thinking, oh, yeah, you could use a very clever word here, and i think, what it is, and i think that's going to make people stop and pay attention to the word, and not pay attention to the poem. and don't do that. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> naomi shihab nye was born four years after her father's palestinian family lost their home in jerusalem. she grew up, she said, with a very strong sense of exile. her home is san antonio, texas. she's written or edited 30 books, including two collections of poems from the middle east. >> this is completely a found poem. i didn't make any of these lines up. my son said them all when he was two and three. i copied down thousands