Al Que Quiere!/Metric Figure

by William Carlos Williams

 

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.
Phoebus!
It is he that is making

the great gleam among the poplars!
It is his singing
outshines the noise
of leaves clashing in the wind.