William Carlos Williams Dance Poems

1.
The Dance

In Breughel's great picture, The Kermess,
the dancers go round, they go round and
around, the squeal and the blare and the
tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and fiddles
...

2.
Overture To A Dance Of Locomotives

Men with picked voices chant the names
of cities in a huge gallery: promises
that pull through descending stairways
to a deep rumbling.
...

3.
The Wedding Dance In The Open Air

Disciplined by the artist
to go round
and round
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