A closer look at Merwin's The Book of Fables shows me these prose pieces are definitely harder to classify than I suggested in the last post.
Simply slapping the label "prose poems" on the book doesn't do it justice. The jacket blurb description "enigmatic short prose" is about as close as you can get.
Likewise, calling him an "essayist" labels. Merwin's work -- prose or poetry -- is its own label.
Kind of like a watermark, wouldn't you say?
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