The Poem, William Carlos Williams
Deal me in. I raise you a WCW as well.
“Shadows”
- “Shadows cast by the street light
- under the stars,
- the head is tilted back,
- the long shadow of the legs
- presumes a world taken for granted
- on which the cricket trills”
I’ll call, with “In the Beginning” by Rainer Maria Rilke.
Ever since those wondrous days of Creation
our Lord God sleeps: we are His sleep.
And He accepted this in His indulgence,
resigned to rest among the distant stars.
Our actions stopped Him from reacting,
for His fist-tight hand is numbed by sleep,
and the times brought in the age of heroes
during which our dark hearts plundered Him.
Sometimes He appears as if tormented,
and His body jerks as if plagued by pain;
but these spells are always outweighed by the
number of His countless other worlds.
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I’m in for a Wallace Stevens, “The Death of a Soldier” Life contracts and death is expected, As in a season of autumn....
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I’ll call, with “In...Beginning” by Rainer Maria Rilke.
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