Category Archives: The seasons

Love Song

I lie here thinking of you
the stain of Love
is upon the world!
Yellow, yellow, yellow
it eats into the leaves,
smears with saffron
the horned branches that lean
heavily
against a smooth purple sky!
There is no light
only a honey-thick stain
that drips from leaf to leaf
and limb to limb
spoiling the colors
of the whole world -

you far off there under
the wine red selvage of the west!

~ William Carlos Williams ~