To Waken An Old Lady
Read 'To Waken An Old Lady' by 'William Carlos (WCW) Williams' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
Old age is
a flight of small
cheeping birds
skimming
bare trees
above a snow glaze.
Gaining and failing
they are buffeted
by a dark wind—
But what?
On harsh weedstalks
the flock has rested—
the snow
is covered with broken
seed husks
and the wind tempered
with a shrill
piping of plenty.
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