A review by luciaholas
Death the Barber by William Carlos Williams

5.0

Discovered William Carlos Williams through Paterson - which I’m eternally thankful for. He’s also possibly the reason why I love to eat plums so much:
‘I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold’

OR

‘munching a plum on
the street a paper bag
of them in her hand

They taste good to her
They taste good
to her. They taste
good to her

You can see it by
the way she gives herself
to the one half
sucked out in her hand

Comforted
a solace of ripe plums
seeming to fill the air
They taste good to her’

How is one able to achieve such vividness with so little words? I’m fucking baffled & forever adhering to the identity of a crazy plum lady.