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“Pieces” by Wallace Stevens 🇺🇸 (2 Oct 1879 – 2 Aug 1955)
Tinsel in February, tinsel in August.
There are things in a man besides his reason.
Come home, wind, he kept crying and crying.
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Snow glistens in its instant in the air,
Instant of millefori bluely magnified—
Come home, wind, he said as he climbed the stair—
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Crystal on crystal until crystal clouds
Become an over-crystal out of ice,
Exhaling these creations of itself.
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There is a sense in sounds beyond their meaning.
The tinsel of August falling was like a flame
That breathed on ground, more blue than red, more red
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Than green, fidgets of all-related fire.
The wind is like a dog that runs away.
But it is like a horse. It is like motion
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That lives in space. It is a person at night,
A member of the family, a tie,
An ethereal cousin, another milleman.