Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
William Carlos Williams
According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring
a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry
of the year was
awake tingling
with itself
sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings' wax
unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning
....
And in the shelf in the Family Room, ie, basement, is the book PATERSON by William Carlos Williams, a physician, who would quickly type up poems before his next patient.
...
MY DINNER PLATE
A sweet sweet-potato, baked by sister Ellen
Heaping servings of liverwurst - say, LiverWURSHT - on Triscuits
Ahh, that was marvelous, a favorite word of the late Bill Cardinale
Chew as if it were baby food
Every mouthful a marvel
And then lie back in your winged easy chair
And snore.
- Ruth Z Deming
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