by William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)

Language: English 
The half-stripped trees
struck by a wind together,
bending all,
the leaves flutter drily
and refuse to let go
or driven like hail
stream bitterly out to one side
and fall
where the salvias, hard carmine --
like no leaf that ever was --
edge the bare garden.

Composition:

    Set to music by Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "Approach of Winter", copyright © 2002 [ chorus and viola or violoncello ], from vignettes - flowers, no. 7, confirmed with an online score

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This text was added to the website: 2008-08-31
Line count: 11
Word count: 47