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“Depression Before Spring” by
Wallace Stevens
🇺🇸
(
2 Oct 1879
–
2 Aug 1955
)
The cock crows
But no queen rises.
The hair of my blonde
Is dazzling,
As the spittle of cows
Threading the wind.
Ho! Ho!
But ki-ki-n-ki
Brings no rou-cou,
No rou-cou-cou.
But no queen comes
In slipper green.