https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56159/this-is-just-to-say
https://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/flossie.html
WCW 'this is just to say' & 'dear Bill' reply ( see above links) The now famous three quatrain 'matter of fact' classic free verse of an everyday event. & reply a three stanza five-liner thought to be an early example of 'found poetry' from a 'real time ' domestic note William Carlos Wiliams in his day noted for his 'This is just to Say' An example of short pointed prose guess its how 'Red Wheebarrow' arose
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