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Saturday 2 October 2010

William Carlos Williams: The Petunia


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Purple petunia: photo by Zirguezi, 2008


Purple!
for months unknown
but for
the barren sky.

A purple trumpet
fragile
as our hopes
from the very
sand
saluting us.



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Petunia hybrid ("Sweet Sunshine"): photo by Mira, 2008

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Petunia hybrid ("Sweet Sunshine"): photo by 3268zauber, 2009


William Carlos Williams: The Petunia, 1941

2 comments:

billymills said...

If there were a god, his name would be Bill Williams

TC said...

Bill with Billy