Day 65

Daily Assignment Chart for Week of 5/18

A poem for today: "To a Wood Thrush" by William Carlos Williams

To a Wood Thrush

Singing across the orchard
before night, answered
from the depths
of the wood inversely
and in a lower key—

First I tried to write
conventionally praising you
but found it no more
than my own thoughts
that I was giving. No.

What can I say?
                         Vistas
of delight waking suddenly
before a cheated world.
A song for today: "Bird Song" by the Grateful Dead

Works Cited

Grateful Dead. "Bird Song." Sunshine Daydream [Veneta, OR 8/27/72], Rhino Records, 2013.

Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963). "To a Wood Thrush." The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams. New Directions, 1995.