Hicks,+Rachael

=** William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) ** =

** Peasant Wedding **

Pour the wine bridegroom where before you the bride is enthroned her hair

loose at her temple a head of ripe wheat is on the wall beside her the

guests seated at long tables the bagpipers are ready there is a hound under

the table the bearded Mayor is present women in their starched headgear are

gabbing all but the bride hands folded in her <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">lap awkwardly silent simple

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">dishes are being served <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">clabber and what not <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">from a trestle made of an

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">unhinged barn door by two <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">helpers one in a red <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">coat a spoon in his hatband.

**<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">The Wedding Dance in the Open Air **

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Disciplined by the artist <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">to go round <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">and round

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">in holiday gear <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">a riotously gay rabble of <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">peasants and their

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">ample-bottomed doxies <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">fills <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">the market square

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">featured by the women in <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">their starched <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">white headgear

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">they prance or go openly <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">toward the wood's <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">edges

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">round and around in <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">rough shoes and <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">farm breeches

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">mouths agape <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Oya! <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">kicking up their heels


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