Après Le Bain

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Included in Pictures from Brueghel

This brief, conversational poem is printed in William Carlos Williams’s collection Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems. It records a fragmentary, teasing exchange between speakers in spare lines and parenthetical asides. The speaker shifts between direct address and interior comment, producing a compact, dialogic snapshot that relies on colloquial phrasing and abrupt line breaks to convey tone and movement.