Danse Russe
If I when my wife is sleeping
and the baby and Kathleen
are sleeping
and the sun is a flame-white disc
in silken mists
above shining trees,
if I in my north room
danced naked, grotesquely,
before my mirror
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William Carlos Williams' poem "Danse Russe" was published in the 1917 Others anthology. To read the poem in full, click the following links: