via the artist alfredo jaar

(and: paul krugman, "poet"? check the larissa macfarquhar feature in the new yorker)

read a good poem: winter trees

bryant park, nyc. feb 19, 2010.
photo © anita aguilar

ok--the last of the winter trees for this year. i promise.

***

Winter Trees

All the complicated details

of the attiring and

the disattiring are completed!

A liquid moon

moves gently among

the long branches.

Thus having prepared their buds

against a sure winter

the wise trees

stand sleeping in the cold.
-William Carlos Williams via the poetry foundation