“Lift your flowers
on bitter stems
chickory!
Lift them up
out of the scorched ground!
Bear no foliage
but give yourself
wholly to that!
Strain under them
you bitter stems
that no beast eats —
and scorn greyness!”

—  William Carlos Williams, book Al Que Quiere!

"Chicory and Daisies"
Al Que Quiere! (1917)

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American poet 1883–1963

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