Sunday, April 5, 2020

The Red Car through the Atrium and the Living Room

When I see the red car on 20th Avenue across the park from where I live, I think of "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams.

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

I don't think he was talking about practical things--the way we use a wheelbarrow (when it's not parked beside those white chickens)--but about the beauty of it, glazed with rain water, beside white chickens.

When I look through my kitchen window I first see the plants in my atrium, which include 2 red poinsettias still going strong more than three months after Christmas, and then through the glass of the living room window, I can see the row of housing facing mine, and parked in front of one of the houses is a red car.  It's been there for several years now, and I love it.









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