Poem by William Carlos Williams

January

  Again I reply to the triple winds
  running chromatic fifths of derision
  outside my window:
                    Play louder.
  You will not succeed. I am
  bound more to my sentences
  the more you batter at me
  to follow you.
                And the wind,
  as before, fingers perfectly
  its derisive music.

1. Crude Lament
2. Portent
3. A Portrait in Greys
4. Blizzard
5. The Fool’s Song

John Payne January ("THIS is the bitter birth-month of the year")

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