Winter Trees

Winter Trees ChairIt’s been bitterly cold here in Santa Fe this week and I’m hoping the trees I planted last summer make it through the winter. I saw the William Carlos Williams “Winter Trees” Poem Arm Chair to the left recently. And looked up the poem…

Winter Trees
William Carlos Williams

All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.