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“Oak Leaves Are Hands” by Wallace Stevens 🇺🇸 (2 Oct 1879 – 2 Aug 1955)
In Hydaspia, by Howzen,
Lived a lady, Lady Lowzen,
For whom what is was other things.
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Flora she was once. She was florid
A bachelor of feen masquerie,
Evasive and metamorphorid.
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Mac Mort she had been, ago,
Twelve-legged in her ancestral hells,
Weaving and weaving many arms.
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Even now, the centre of something else,
Merely by putting hand to brow,
Brooding on centuries like shells.
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As the acorn broods on former oaks
In memorials of Northem sound,
Skims the real for its unreal,
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So she in Hydaspia created
Out of the movement of few words,
Flora Lowzen invigorated
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Archaic and future happenings,
In glittering seven-colored changes,
By Howzen, the chromatic Lowzen.