To a New Year.

... so this is the sound of you
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come with our age
our knowledge such as it is
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible

—WS Merwin

From the poem, ‘To the New Year,’ by WS Merwin taken from the collection, Present Company (Copper Canyon Press, 2005).

Photography by Jevgeni Fil.