Approach of Winter, Blizzard

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Approach of Winter, Blizzard (1:05)

by William Carlos Williams

performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode

APPROACH OF WINTER

  The half stripped trees
  struck by a wind together,
  bending all,
  the leaves flutter drily
  and refuse to let go /
  or driven like hail
  stream bitterly out to one side
  and fall
  where the salvias, hard carmine,--
  like no leaf that ever was--
  edge the bare garden.


BLIZZARD

  Snow:
  years of anger following
  hours that float idly down--
  the blizzard
  drifts its weight
  deeper and deeper for three days
  or sixty years, eh? Then
  the sun! a clutter of
  yellow and blue flakes--
  Hairy looking trees stand out
  in long alleys
  over a wild solitude.
  The man turns and there--
  his solitary track stretched out
  upon the world.