Words That Split the Rock

A poem by William Carlos Williams

Art: Saxifrage Splits the Stone by Corinne Vale

Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.
-- through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.

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