by William Carlos Williams
The Easter stars are shining
above lights that are flashing--
coronal of the black-
Nobody
to say it-
Nobody to say: pinholes
Thither I would carry her
among the lights-
Burst it asunder
break through to the fifty words
necessary--
a crown for her head with
castles upon it, skyscrapers
filled with nut-chocolates--
dovetame winds--
stars of tinsel
from the great end of a cornucopia
of glass.
From:
The Collected Earlier Poems of William Carlos Williams
Copyright ©:
1938, New Directions Books
Last updated April 26, 2023