W. C. Williams (3)

THE FRUIT

Waking
I was eating pears !
she said

I sat beside her on the bed
thinking
of Picasso

a portrait of
a sensitive young boy
gathered

into himself
Waking
I was eating pears !

she said
when separate jointly
we embraced

William Carlos Williams, Asphodèle suivi de Tableaux d'après Bruegel, Poésie Points