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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
near


the edge of the sea
concerned
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

Written by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

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