William Carlos Williams - Spring and All (1923)

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By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northeast — a cold wind.

William Carlos Williams
The pure products of America
go crazy –
mountain folk from Kentucky
or the ribbed north end of
Jersey
with its isolate lakes and
valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.

William Carlos Williams
So much depends
upon a red wheel
barrow glazed with rain
water beside the white
chickens

William Carlos Williams
The crowd at the ball game is moved uniformly by a spirit of uselessness which delights them—

William Carlos Williams
As if the earth under our feet were
an excrement of some sky
and we degraded prisoners destined
to hunger until we eat filth

William Carlos Williams
From the petal's edge a line starts that being of steel infinitely fine, infinitely rigid penetrates the Milky Way without contact—

William Carlos Williams
Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches —
They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
The cold, familiar wind — Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined —
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of
entrance — Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted, they
grip down and begin to awaken.

William Carlos Williams