# THREE POEMS

BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

## ON GAY WALLPAPER

The green-blue ground
is ruled with silver lines
to say the sun is shining

And on this moral sea
of grass or dreams lie flowers
or baskets of desires

Heaven knows what they are
between cerulean shapes
laid regularly round

Mat roses and tridentate
leaves of gold
threes, threes and threes

Three roses and three stems
the basket floating
standing in the horns of blue

Repeated to the ceiling
to the windows
where the day blows in

The scalloped curtains to
the sound of rain

## THE LILY

The branching head of
tiger-lilies through the window
in the air