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“Anecdote of Canna” by Wallace Stevens 🇺🇸 (2 Oct 1879 – 2 Aug 1955)
Huge are the canna in the dreams of
X, the mighty thought, the mighty man.
They fill the terrace of his capitol.
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His thought sleeps not. Yet thought that wakes
In sleep may never meet another thought
Or thing … Now day-break comes …
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X promenades the dewy stones,
Observes the canna with a clinging eye,
Observes and then continues to observe.