Naked in a new world

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“All along the road the reddish

purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy

stuff of bushes and small trees

with dead, brown leaves under them

leafless vines-

“Lifeless in appearance, sluggish

dazed spring approaches-

“They enter the new world naked,

cold, uncertain of all

save that they enter….’’

- From “Spring and All,’’ by William Carlos Williams