William Williams
William Williams
against buds prepared sleeping stand sure thus trees winter wise
Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold.
branches hang leaves tale winter
Some leaves hang late, some fallbefore the first frost--so goesthe tale of winter branches and old bones.
branches fall goes hang leaves tale winter
Some leaves hang late, some fall before the first frost--so goes the tale of winter branches and old bones.
closes cold round sorrow
Sorrow is my own yardwhere the new grassflames as it has flamedoften before but notwith the cold firethat closes round me this year.
red
so much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside the whitechickens.
beside depends rain red water wheel white
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.
pass solitary ten walls
At ten a.m. the young housewifemoves about in negligee behindthe wooden walls of her husband's house.I pass solitary in my car.
ground perform teach
I will teach you my townspeoplehow to perform a funeralfor you have it over a troopof artists--unless one should scour the world--you have the ground sense necessary.
blind lives
We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.
bad bitter choose dreams left turn
Well--all things turn bitter in the endwhether you choose the right orthe left wayand--dreams are not a bad thing.
bad bitter choose dreams left turn whether
Well-- all things turn bitter in the end whether you choose the right or the left way and-- dreams are not a bad thing.
late spring
Here it is spring againand I still a young man!I am late at my singing.
inside itself shall storm time
Time is a storm in which we are all lost. Only inside the convolutions of the storm itself shall we find our directions.
best born
I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely, I am best so!