William Carlos Williams

The Parable of the Blind

This horrible but superb painting
the parable of the blind
without a red
 
in the composition shows a group
of beggars leading
each other diagonally downward
 
across the canvas
from one side
to stumble finally into a bog
 
where the picture
and the composition ends back
of which no seeing man
 
is represented the unshaven
features of the des–
titute with their few
 
pitiful possessions a basin
to wash in a peasant
cottage is seen and a church spire
 
the faces are raised
as toward the light
there is no detail extraneous
 
to the composition one
follows the others stick in
hand triumphant to disaster
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