Sunday Poem

…. The N

Look for the nul
defeats it all

the N of all
equations     .

that rock, the blank
that holds them up

which   pulled   away—
the rock’s

their fall. Look
for that nul

that’s past all
seeing

the death of all
that’s past

all being   .

But spring shall come and flowers will bloom
and man must chatter of his doom   .      .

by William Carlos Williams
from “Paterson”
New Directions Publishing 1963


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