Poem by William Carlos Williams

Apology

Why do I write today?

The beauty of 
the terrible faces
of our nonenties
stirs me to it:

coloured women
day workers
old and experiences-
returning home at dusk 
in cast off clothing
faces like
old Florentine oak.

also

The set pieces
Of our faces stir me-
leading citizens-
but not
in the same way.

1. A Celebration
2. Berket and the Stars
3. The Late Singer
4. March
5. Spring and All

Joyce Kilmer Apology ("(For Eleanor Rogers Cox)")

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