Poems Written Out of William Carlos Williams 4

Doug PalmerContemplative
To Ruth

Now we stopped looking to be excused. You have said it. You who shrug the flesh, for all it's worth. Woman: stroked to a fine cross-hatched plan. The guts of it! to take each thread and loose it. I can take the grabbing vines and slapping branches. But this! I can take that too.

Doug Palmer
SourceLicence:Public domain (US, no notice)

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