Flowers by the Sea

An abstract illustration for William Carlos William's "Flowers by the sea"
  • the shape of restlessness
  • the sea is circled
When over the flowery, sharp pasture’s
edge, unseen, the salt ocean

lifts its form—chicory and daisies
tied, released, seem hardly flowers alone

but color and the movement—or the shape
perhaps—of restlessness, whereas

the sea is circled and sways
peacefully upon its plantlike stem

PhoArtry: a selection of illustrated poems