The Red Wheelbarrow

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

from Collected Poems (Carcanet, Vol I 1987, Vol. II 1989), by permission of Carcanet Press Ltd and New Directions Publishing Corporation. Recording from the Library of Congress used by permission of Pollinger Ltd and the proprietor.

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