The Nightingales

William Carlos WilliamsWilliam Carlos Williams

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My shoes as I lean
unlacing them
stand out upon
flat worsted flowers
under my feet.
Nimbly the shadows
of my fingers play
unlacing
over shoes and flowers.
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William Carlos Williams
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William Carlos Williams

1883 - 1963/Male/AmericanA physician, painter and poet closely associated with modernism and imagism.

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