This Is Just To Say
By William Carlos Williams
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
From The North No 9 (1990).
By William Carlos Williams, from Collected Poems 1909-1939: Volume I, © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
