The World Contracted to a Recognizable Image by William Carlos Williams

at the small end of an illness
there was a picture
probably Japanese
which filled my eye

an idiotic picture
except it was all I recognized
the wall lived for me in that picture
I clung to it as a fly

From his book “Pictures From Brueghel and Other Poems,” 1962.

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