Between Walls

the back wings
of the

hospital where
nothing

will grow lie
cinders

in which shine
the broken

pieces of a green
bottle

Copyright Credit: William Carlos Williams, "Between Walls" from The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Volume I, 1909-1939, edited by Christopher MacGowan. Copyright © 1938, 1944, 1945 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted with the permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams Volume I, 1909-1939 (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1988)