Earthy Anecdote

Wallace StevensWallace Stevens

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Every time the bucks went clattering
Over Oklahoma
A firecat bristled in the way.Wherever they went,
They went clattering,
Until they swerved
In a swift, circular line
To the right,
Because of the firecat.Or until they swerved
In a swift, circular line
To the left,
Because of the firecat.The bucks clattered.
The firecat went leaping,
To the right, to the left,
And
Bristled in the way.Later, the firecat closed his bright eyes
And slept.
Wallace Stevens
About the poet

Wallace Stevens

1879 - 1955/Male/AmericanA Modernist poet whose meditative and philosophical poems' moods rotate between ecstasy, apathy, and reluctance between ecstasy and apathy. (wikipedia)

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