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“The Hermitage at the Center” by Wallace Stevens 🇺🇸 (2 Oct 1879 – 2 Aug 1955)
The leaves on the macadam make a noise—
How soft the grass on which the desired
Reclines in the temperature of heaven—
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Like tales that were told the day before yesterday—
Sleek in a natural nakedness,
She attends the tintinnabula—
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And the wind sways like a great thing tottering—
Of birds called up by more than the sun,
Birds of more wit, that substitute—
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Which suddenly is all dissolved and gone—
Their intelligible twittering
For unintelligible thought.
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And yet this end and this beginning are one,
And one last look at the ducks is a look
At lucent children round her in a ring.