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BLIZZARD by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

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First Line: SNOW: / YEARS OF ANGER FOLLOWING
Last Line: UPON THE WORLD.
Subject(s): SNOW;
Snow:
years of anger following
hours that float idly down --
the blizzard
drifts its weight
deeper and deeper for three days
or sixty years, eh? Then
the sun! a clutter of
yellow and blue flakes --
Hairy looking trees stand out
in long alleys
over a wild solitude.
The man turns and there --
his solitary track stretched out
upon the world.



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