Tag: william carlos williams
Featured Poem: Lear
by Shannon Fox
Lear by William Carlos Williams When the world takes over for us and the storm in the trees replaces our brittle consciences (like ships, female to all seas) when the few last yellow leaves stand out like flags on tossed ships at anchor—our minds are rested Yesterday we sweated and dreamed or sweated in our dreams walking at a loss through the bulk of … Read More Featured Poem: Lear
Featured Poem: The Rewaking
by Shannon Fox
The Rewaking by William Carlos Williams Sooner of later we must come to the end of striving to re-establish the image the image of the rose but not yet you say extending the time indefinitely by your love until a whole spring rekindle the violet to the very lady’s-slipper and so by your love the very sun itself is revived
Featured Poem: A Sort of a Song
by Shannon Fox
A Sort of a Song by William Carlos Williams Let the snake wait under his weed and the writhing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. —through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.
Featured Poem: The Dance
by Shannon Fox
The Dance by William Carlos Williams When the snow falls the flakes spin upon the long axis that concerns them most intimately two and two to make a dance the mind dances with itself, taking you by the hand, your lover follows there are always two, yourself and the other, the point of your shoe setting the pace, if you break away and run … Read More Featured Poem: The Dance
Featured Poem: Song
by Shannon Fox
Song by William Carlos Williams beauty if a shell from the sea where she rules triumphant til love has had its way with her scallops and lion’s paws sculptured to the tune of retreating waves undying accents repeated till the ear and the eye lie down together in the same bed
Featured Poem: The Descent of Winter
by Shannon Fox
The Descent of Winter by William Carlos Williams 9/30 There are no perfect waves— Your writings are a sea full of misspellings and faulty sentences. Level. Troubled A center distant from the land touched by the wings of nearly silent birds that never seen to rest— This is the sadness of the sea— waves like words, all broken— a sameness of lifting and falling … Read More Featured Poem: The Descent of Winter
Featured Poem: Shadows
by Shannon Fox
Shadows by William Carlos Williams I Shadows cast by the street light under the stars, the head is tilted back, the long shadows of the legs presumes a world taken for granted on which the cricket trills. The hollows of the eyes are unpeopled. Right and left climb the ladders of night as dawn races to put out the stars. That is the poetic … Read More Featured Poem: Shadows
Featured Poem: The Botticellian Trees
by Shannon Fox
The Botticellian Trees by William Carlos Williams The alphabet of the trees is fading in the song of the leaves the crossing bars of thin letters that spelled winter and the cold have been illuminated with pointed green— by the rain and sun— The strict simple principles of straight branches are being modified by pinched-out ifs of color, devout conditions the smiles of love— … Read More Featured Poem: The Botticellian Trees
Featured Poem: The Descent
by Shannon Fox
The Descent by William Carlos Williams The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned. Memory is a kind of accomplishment, a sort of renewal even an initiation, since the spaces it opens are new places inhabited by hordes heretofore unrealized, of new kinds— since their movements are toward new objectives (even though formerly they were abandoned). No defeat is made up entirely of defeat—since the … Read More Featured Poem: The Descent
Featured Poem: Between Walls
by Shannon Fox
Between Walls by William Carlos Williams the back wings of the hospital where nothing will grow lie cinders in which shine the broken pieces of a green bottle
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