January

Listen to:

January (:34)

by William Carlos Williams 

performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode

Again I reply to the triple winds
running chromatic fifths of derision
outside my window:
                                          Play louder.
You will not succeed. I am
bound more to my sentences
the more you batter at me
to follow you.
                                           And the wind,
as before, fingers perfectly
its derisive music.