‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’ by William Carlos Williams

snarkattack-gracenotes:

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

Oh so pleasing to be surprised with a poem by Williams this morning. Thanks, snarkattack-gracenotes!

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