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Saturday, October 9, 2021

Advent of Today / William Carlos Williams


Advent of Today

South wind
striking in — torn
spume — trees

inverted over trees
scudding low
a sea become winged

bringing today
out of yesterday
in bursts of rain —

a darkened presence
above
detail of October grasses

veiled at once
in a downpour —
conflicting rattle of

the rain against
the storm’s slow majesty —
leaves

rising
instead of falling
the sun

coming and going
toward the
middle parts of the sky

~~
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
from Complete Collected Poems, 1906-1938, 1938

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]

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