The Botticellian Trees
–William Carlos Williams
The alphabet of the trees is fading in the song of the leaves the crossing bars of thin letters that spelled winter and the cold have been illumined with pointed green by the rain and sun— The strict simple principles of straight branches are being modified by pinched-out ifs of color, devout conditions the smiles of love— .............. until the stript sentences move as a woman’s limbs under cloth and praise from secrecy quick with desire love’s ascendancy in summer— In summer the song sings itself above the muffled words—
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