Sour Grapes (1921)
by
William Carlos Williams
Winter 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.
Sources:
Public domain text taken from The Poets’ Corner:
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/wcw-sg2.html#15