Today’s Poem: Spring and All

William Carlos Williams forms a poem

George Inness, Spring Blossoms, Montclair, New Jersey, c. 1891 (Wikimedia Commons)

Nothing says spring quite like a careful description of driving a car to the hospital.

Or so, at least, decided William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) when he opened Spring and All, his 1923 collection of poetry and prose, with the lines, “By the road to the contagious hospit…