New Jersey doctor and poet William Carlos Williams was born the first of two sons of an English father and a Puerto Rican mother of French, Dutch, Spanish, and Jewish ancestry.
Williams grew up in Rutherford, where he spent many years of his life as an adult caring for his patients.
I just discovered that his father’s mother was coincidentally named Emily Dickinson.
Dear Optimist and Pessimist,
While you were arguing
about the water in the glass,
I drank it.
Forgive me.
It was delicious,
so sweet
and so cold.
Sincerely,
Opportunist
Whether the rain comes down
or there be sunny days
the sleets of January or the haze
of autumn afternoons, when
we dream of our youth our gaze
grows mellow, wise man or fool,
we were young, the future
beckoned us…
