The Desolate Field
Published in Poem Of The Day
Vast and gray, the sky
is a simulacrum
to all but him whose days
are vast and gray, 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 gray
yearning silently over me.
About this poem
"The Desolate Field" was published in "Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems" (The Four Seas Company, 1921).
About William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, N.J. A doctor as well as a major imagist poet, his collections of verse include "Spring and All" (1923), "Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems" (1962) and the five-volume epic "Paterson" (1963). He died in New Jersey in March of 1963.
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