Summer Song
Wanderer moon
smiling a
faintly ironical smile
at this
brilliant, dew-moistened
summer morning,—
a detached
sleepily indifferent
smile, a
wanderer’s smile,—
if I should
buy a shirt
your color and
put on a necktie
sky-blue
where would they carry me?
.
William Carlos Williams, 1883-1963
“Summer Song”
© 1917 William Carlos Wiilliams (This poem is in the public domain)
Photo by WILLIAN REIS on Unsplash
