Apr. 17th, 2009

literary!

Apr. 17th, 2009 10:18 am
zarahemla: (when harry met sally)
At Poetryfoundation.org, an article entitled In Praise of Democratic Comforts by Stephen Burt, who discusses this poem:


To A Poor Old Woman
by William Carlos Williams

munching a plum on
the street a paper bag
of them in her hand

They taste good to her
They taste good
to her. They taste
good to her

You can see it by
the way she gives herself
to the one half
sucked out in her hand

Comforted
a solace of ripe plums
seeming to fill the air
They taste good to her

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