Winter Trees
All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.
~~
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
from Sour Grapes, 1921
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]
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