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ARRIVAL by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

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First Line: AND YET ONE ARRIVES SOMEHOW
Last Line: LIKE A WINTER WIND . . . !
Subject(s): WINTER;

And yet one arrives somehow,
finds himself loosening the hooks of
her dress
in a strange bedroom --
feels the autumn
dropping its silk and linen leaves
about her ankles.
The tawdry veined body emerges
twisted upon itself
like a winter wind . . . !



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