Poetry Friday: William Carlos Williams, Spring and All

Atticus suggested this one last week but I was in a Billy Collins mood. (Honestly, though, when am I not in a Billy Collins mood?) This week, though, felt like a spring-and-all week, with its combination of blue and cloudy skies, chilly winds, a March thaw, and the promise of quickening. 

Spring and All (By the road to the contagious hospital) 

by William Carlos Williams 

I

By the road to the contagious hospital

under the surge of the blue

mottled clouds driven from the

northeast-a cold wind. Beyond, the

waste of broad, muddy fields

brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen

patches of standing water

the scattering of tall trees

(Read the rest here, at Poets.org.) 

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Kathryn Apel has the roundup this week. 

Be sure to congratulate her on her latest picture book, The Bird in the Herd!