#MIDDLEBURY
Winter Trees
William Carlos Williams
All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.
About this poem
“Winter Trees” was published in “Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems” (The Four Seas Company, 1921).
About William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams was born on Sept. 17, 1883, in Rutherford, N.J. His collections include “Spring and All” (Contact Publishing Co., 1923) and the five-volume epic “Paterson” (New Directions Publishing, 1963). He died on March 4, 1963.
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