lotesse: (laputa_fallingstar)
throbbing light machine ([personal profile] lotesse) wrote2013-12-16 10:53 pm
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big round rainbow round the moon tonight :)

Suzanne
William Carlos Williams

Brother Paul! look!
—but he rushes to a different
window.
The moon!

I heard shrieks and thought:
What's that?

That's just Suzanne
talking to the moon!
Pounding on the window
with both fists:

Paul! Paul!

—and talking to the moon.
Shrieking
and pounding the glass
with both fists!

Brother Paul! the moon!

(a story to go with the poem: I had this wild anthology of poems, ostensibly "for children," that was the gruesomest, wrenchingest, weirdest, most intense thing ever, and I pored over it like a postulate with her sacred text as a wee thing. Bits of poems from this anthology are lodged all the way back at my backbrain. Just now, I remembered pounding at the window and brother Paul and the moon, and lo and behold of course the poem is by William Carlos Williams. Besos, baby!)

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