7.12.09

__ the highest praise comes from a little person __


Landscape with the Fall of Icarus ____According to Brueghel

when Icarus fell
it was spring

a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry

of the year was
awake tingling
with itself

sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings' wax

unsignificantly
off the coast
there was

a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning

__ william carlos william

Pieter Brueghel, The Fall of Icarus