This is Just to Say (Monday Poem)

 by William Carlos Williams

 

 

I have eaten 

the plums

that were in 

the icebox

 

and which

you were probably 

saving

for breakfast

 

Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold.

 

 

from  A River of Words: 

The Story of William Carlos Williams

by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Eerdmans, 2008