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Thursday, May 5, 2011

The Desolate Field

The Desolate Field
by William Carlos Williams
[from Sour Grapes (1921)]

Vast and grey, the sky
is a simulacrum
to all but him whose days
are vast and grey and—
In the tall, dried grasses
a goat stirs
with nozzle searching the ground.
—my head is in the air
but who am I . . ?
And amazed my heart leaps
at the thought of love
vast and grey
yearning silently over me.

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