A CORONAL
by: William Carlos Williams
(1883-1963)
 EW books of poetry will be written
- New books and unheard of manuscripts
- will come wrapped in brown paper
- and many and many a time
- the postman will bow
- and sidle down the leaf-plastered steps
- thumbing over other men's business.
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- But we ran ahead of it all.
- One coming after
- could have seen her footprints
- in the wet and followed us
- among the stark chestnuts.
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- Anemones sprang where she pressed
- and cresses
- stood green in the slender source--
- And new books of poetry
- will be written, leather-colored oakleaves
- many and many a time.
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