Windows by Guillaume Apollinaire, a version by Matthew John Williams

Windows is a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire, published in The Wolf. The English version is by Matthew John Williams, working from the French.

The version moves between colours, from red to green and all yellow, and names places including London, Helsinki, Brixham, Hurstpierpoint and Brisbane, as well as the Virgin Islands. Birds, spiders, monkfish, sunflowers and a pair of old yellow shoes appear in front of a window, and the poem ends with the window opening like an orange.

Work

Windows

Author

Guillaume Apollinaire

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