williams-brueghel

Landscape With The Fall of Icarus
by William Carlos Williams


According to Brueghel

when Icarus fell

it was spring



a farmer was ploughing

his field

the whole pageantry



of the year was

awake tingling

near



the edge of the sea

concerned

with itself



sweating in the sun

that melted

the wings' wax



unsignificantly

off the coast

there was



a splash quite unnoticed

this was

Icarus drowning