Lay for the Day17th September

1883: the American poet William Carlos Williams is born in Rutherford, New Jersey.

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A glittering day of the favourite season,
the short sun unblinking in the hazy air
on the town as ever hectic
and disco-ordinate, making its motion
serene and equal-seeming, almost still.
The mother with her child on either side
walks in a wreath of breath under peaceful sky.

John Gibbens
from Falling Down

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