Approach of Winter
The half-stripped trees
struck by a wind together,
bending all,
the leaves flutter drily
and refuse to let go
or driven like hail
stream bitterly out to one side
and fall
where the salvias, hard carmine,—
like no leaf that ever was —
edge the bare garden.
~~
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
from Complete Collected Poems, 1906-1938, 1938
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]
Trees in the Wind, November 2007. Photograph taken by Dori (dori@merr.info).
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