[New-Poetry] Poems by others: Wallace Stevens, "Of Mere Being" +note

[TheOldMole]

I love this one.

Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Of Mere Being
>
> The palm at the end of the mind,
> Beyond the last thought, rises
> In the bronze distance,
>
> A gold-feathered bird
> Sings in the palm, without human meaning,
> Without human feeling, a foreign song.
>
> You know then that it is not the reason
> That makes us happy or unhappy.
> The birds sings. Its feathers shine.
>
> The palm stands on the edge of space.
> The wind moves slowly in the branches.
> The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down.
>
> --Wallace Stevens
>
> in /Poems by Wallace Stevens
> /[New York: Vintage Books, 1959]
>
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