Tuesday, January 6, 2009

January


Again I reply to the triple winds
running chromatic fifths of derision
outside my window:
Play louder.
You will not succeed. I am
bound more to my sentences
the more you batter at me
to follow you.
And the wind,
as before, fingers perfectly
its derisive music.

- William Carlos Williams

3 comments:

  1. Dawn


    Ecstatic bird songs pound
    the hollow vastness of the sky
    with metallic clinkings--
    beating color up into it
    at a far edge,--beating it, beating it
    with rising, triumphant ardor,--
    stirring it into warmth,
    quickening in it a spreading change,--
    bursting wildly against it as
    dividing the horizon, a heavy sun
    lifts himself--is lifted--
    bit by bit above the edge
    of things,--runs free at last
    out into the open--!lumbering
    glorified in full release upward--
    songs cease.

    William Carlos Williams

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  2. so when are we going to watch it from the bridge?

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  3. According to the Farmer's Almanac, the sun rises at 7:19 am on Saturday, January 10.

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