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Winter Trees

by William Carlos Williams, 1921

All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.

Published in Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems
Tags: winter

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