Monday, January 4, 2010

William Carlos Williams' Poem for a Monday

The Attic Which Is Desire (from his Selected Poems)
William Carlos Williams

the unused tent
of

bare beams
beyond which

directly wait
the night

and day --
Here

from the street
by

***
*S*
*O*
*D*
*A*
***

ringed with
running lights

the darkened
pane

exactly
down the center

is
transfixed.

~

Poem
William Carlos Williams

As the cat
climbed over
the top of

the jamcloset
first the right
forefoot

carefully
then the hind
stepped down

into the pit of
the empty
flowerpot

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