Poetry, Exclamations!: William Carlos Williams

Waking
I was eating pears!
she said

I sat beside her on the bed
thinking
of Picasso

a portrait of
a sensitive young boy
gathered

into himself
Waking
I was eating pears!

she said
when separate jointly
we embraced
- "The Fruit"

You slapped my face
oh but so gently
I smiled
at the caress
- "Short Poem"

VIII: THE COCKTAIL PARTY
A young woman
on whose belly I have never
slept though others

have
met today
at a cocktail party

not drunk
but by love
ignoring the others

we looked in
each other's eyes
eyes alert to

what we were saying
eyes blinded
breathless by that alone
- "Some Simple Measures in the American Idiom and the Variable Foot"

by William Carlos Williams