Two poems by William Carlos Williams

This Is Just To Say


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


2.


Poem (As the cat)


As the cat

climbed over

the top of



the jamcloset

first the right

forefoot



carefully

then the hind

stepped down

into the pit of

the empty

flowerpot