The ShadowAuthor(s): William Carlos WilliamsSource: Poetry, Vol. 6, No. 2 (May, 1915), p. 62Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20570373 .

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POETRY: A Magazine of Verse

ROOT BUDS

THE SHADOW

Soft as the bed in the earth

Where a stone has lain So soft, so smooth and so cool, Spring closes me in

With her arms and her hands.

Rich as the smell

Of new earth on a stone, That has lain, breathing The damp through its pores Spring closes me in

With her blossomy hair; Brings dark to my eyes.

METRIC FIGURE

There is a bird in the poplars It is the sun! The leaves are little yellow fish Swimming in the river; The bird skims above them Day is on his wings. Phoenix! It is he that is making

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