Housewife lyrics

by

William Carlos Williams


At ten A.M. the young housewife
moves about in negligee behind
the wooden walls of her husband's house.

I pass solitary in my car.

Then again she comes to the curb
to call the ice-man, fish-man,
and stands
shy, uncorseted, tucking in
stray ends of hair
, and I compare her
to a fallen leaf.


The noiseless wheels of my car
rush with a crackling sound over
dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling.
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