Lines
Leaves are graygreen, the glass broken, bright green.
haiku
Lines - meaning Summary
Color and Ordinary Objects
William Carlos Williams compresses a single visual moment into two brief lines. The poem registers a precise color shift—"graygreen" to "bright green"—and links natural leaves with broken glass. The juxtaposition makes perception itself the subject: small, ordinary objects become startling when paired, so that color, texture, and fracture convey both stasis and suddenness. The poem asks readers to notice how attention reshapes the commonplace.
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