January
Again I reply to the triple winds
running chromatic fifths of derision
outside my window:
Play louder.
You will not succeed. I am
bound more to my sentences
the more you batter at me
to follow you.
And the wind,
as before, fingers perfectly
its derisive music.
~~
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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