The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems by William Carlos Williams

Author:William Carlos Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780811227896
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2018-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

Queen-Anne’s-Lace

Her body is not so white as

anemone petals nor so smooth — nor

so remote a thing. It is a field

of the wild carrot taking

the field by force; the grass

does not raise above it.

Here is no question of whiteness,

white as can be, with a purple mole

at the center of each flower.

Each flower is a hand’s span

of her whiteness. Wherever

his hand has lain there is

a tiny purple blemish. Each part

is a blossom under his touch

to which the fibres of her being

stem one by one, each to its end,

until the whole field is a

white desire, empty, a single stem,

a cluster, flower by flower,

a pious wish to whiteness gone over —

or nothing.

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