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“A Fish-Scale Sunrise” by Wallace Stevens 🇺🇸 (2 Oct 1879 – 2 Aug 1955)
Melodious skeletons, for all of last night’s music
Today is today and the dancing is done.
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Dew lies on the instruments of straw that you were playing,
The ruts in your empty road are red.
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You Jim and you Margaret and you singer of La Paloma,
The cocks are crowing and crowing loud,
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And although my mind perceives the force behind the moment,
The mind is smaller than the eye.
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The sun rises green and blue in the fields and in the heavens.
The clouds foretell a swampy rain.