"Do one thing every day that scares you." Eleanor Roosevelt

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Winter Trees


Winter Trees
by William Carlos Williams

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.

(photo from Enders Island, Mystic, CT January 2011)


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