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Saturday, May 11, 2024

The Locust Tree in Flower (First Version) /
William Carlos Williams


The Locust Tree in Flower

(First Version)

Among
the leaves
bright

green
of wrist-thick
tree

and old
stiff broken
branch

ferncool
swaying
loosely strung —
come May
again
white blossom

clusters
hide
to spill

their sweets
almost
unnoticed

down
and quickly
fall

~~
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
from An Early Martyr, and other poems, 1935

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada]


Friday Musa, Locust Bean Tree at Samaru, 2023. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

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