Poem of the month: The Locust Tree in Flower

The Locust Tree in Flower (First Version)

Among
the leaves
bright

green
of wrist-thick
tree

and old
stiff broken
branch

ferncool
swaying
loosely strung-

come May
again
white blossom

clusters
hide
to spill

their sweets
almost
unnoticed

down
and quickly
fall

-

The Locust Tree in Flower (Second Version)

Among
of
green

stiff
old
bright

broken
branch
come

white
sweet
May

again

-William Carlos Williams