A Correspondence

Still Life with Ginger Jar, first version (1911-12, Piet Mondrian)

:

The Locust Tree in Flower (1932, William Carlos Williams)

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 (1935, William Carlos Williams)

Among
of
green

stiff
old
bright

broken
branch
come

white
sweet
may

again

:

Still Life with Ginger Jar, second version (1911-12, Piet Mondrian)