“Among
of
green stiff
old
bright broken
branch
come white
sweet
May again”

—  William Carlos Williams , book An Early Martyr and Other Poems

"The Locust Tree in Flower"
An Early Martyr and Other Poems (1935)

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American poet 1883–1963

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