Hart to Hearts: Hope in the Small Holiness of Braver Things

William Carlos Williams points us toward the sights that surround us and the refreshment that we can find there.  Hope is all around if we look for it.

APPROACH TO A CITY

Getting through with the world-
I never tire of the mystery
of these streets: the three baskets
of dried flowers in the high

bar-room window, the gulls wheeling
above the factory, the dirty
snow-the humility of the snow that
silvers everything and is

trampled and lined with use-yet
falls again, the silent birds
on the still wires of the sky, the blur
of wings as they take off

together. The flags in the heavy
air move against a leaden
ground – the snow
penciled with the stubble of old

weeds: I never tire of these sights
but refresh myself there
always for there is small holiness
to be found in braver things.

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