Wednesday, December 22, 2021

William Carlos Williams


William Carlos Williams


The Thinker

My wife's new pink slippers 
have gay pompons. 
There is not a spot or a stain 
on their satin toes or their sides. 
All night they lie together 
under her bed's edge. 
Shivering I catch sight of them 
and smile, in the morning. 
Later I watch them 
descending the stair, 
hurrying through the doors 
and round the table, 
moving stiffly 
with a shake of their gay pompons! 
And I talk to them 
in my secret mind 
out of pure happiness.

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