Prof. Michael O'Rourke

DDA-514, Storyboarding & Storytelling

 

Short Poems

 

 

William Carlos Williams (American, 1883 – 1963)

 

It was an icy day.
We buried the cat,

then took her box
and set fire to it
in the back yard.
Those fleas that escaped
earth and fire

died by the cold.



 

Ezra Pound (American, 1885 – 1972)

 

In a Station of the Metro

 

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
    Petals on a wet, black bough.