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WINTER TREES by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

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First Line: ALL THE COMPLICATED DETAILS
Last Line: STAND SLEEPING IN THE COLD.
Subject(s): TREES;
All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.



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