3 Poems by William Carlos Williams

Flowers by the Sea



When over the flowery, sharp pasture's

edge, unsee, the salt ocean



lifts its form -- chicory and daisies

ties, release, seem hardly flowers alone



but color and the movement -- or the shape

perhaps -- of restlessness, whereas



the sea is circled and sways

peacefully upon its plantlike stem









The Red Wheelbarrow



so much depends

upon



a red wheel

barrow



glazed with rain

water



beside the white

chickens.







This Is Just To Say



I have eaten

the plums

that were in 

the icebox



and which

you were probably

saving 

for breakfast



Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold

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