Winter Trees

All the complicated details 
of the attiring and 
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among 
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds 
against a sure winter 
the wise trees 
stand sleeping in the cold.

--William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), Puerto Rican-American poet, physician, and pediatrician, US poet laureate denied office due to McCarthyism, and Pulitzer Prize winner