an almost accidental gathering of poets
 
   
 
 
William Carlos Williams
 (1921)
To Waken An Old Lady
Old age is
a flight of small
cheeping birds
skimming
bare trees
above a snowy glaze.
Gaining and failing.
they are buffeted
by a dark wind -
But what?
On harsh weedstalks
the flock has rested,
the snow
is covered with broken
seedhusks
and the wind tempered
by a shrill
piping of plenty.
   
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