William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963).

i. “The Red Wheelbarrow”.

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

ii. “The Wind Increases”.

The harried

earth is swept

The trees

the tulip's bright

tips

sidle and

toss -

Loose your love

to flow

Blow!

Good Christ what is

a poet - if any

exists?

a man

whose words will

bite

their way

home - being actual

having the form

of motion

At each twigtip

new

upon the tortured

body of thought

gripping

the ground

a way

to the last leaftip

iii. “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 the year was

awake tingling

near

the edge of the sea

concerned

with itself

sweating in the sun

that melted

the wings' wax

unsignificantly

off the coast

there was

a splash quite unnoticed

this was

Icarus drowning

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