William Carlos Williams

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten

the plums

that were in

the ice box

om yom yom

Complete Destruction

It was an icy day.

We buried the cat,

then took her box

and set fire to it

Boom!

The Wheelbarrow

So much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow,

shits

fucked up

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

According to Brueghel,

when Icarus fell

it was spring

a farmer was ploughing

his field

the whole pageantry

of that jabroni

Pickles

what name could

better

explode from

a sleeping pup

but this

leaping

to his feet

Pickles!

Pickles! Pickles!

Editor’s Note: Pickles is the name of the family Shetland sheep-dog.