Cory Lyman Cories

Here is a prose poem by William Carlos Williams the Puerto Rican Jewish doctor who dwelled for most of his life in Rutherford, NJ:

"This Is Just to Say"

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


*This is poetry in the sense that William Carlos Williams takes a large consideration in the careful choice of words and the lack of paragraphs. Despite the enjambment, the poem reads more like sentences than lines of poetry. Even the title is a part of the sentence.