gray room by wallace stevens

Although you sit in a room that is gray,

Except for the sliver

of the straw-paper

And pick

At your pale white gown

Or lift one of your green beads

 Of your necklace

To let it fall :

Or gaze at your green fan

Printed with the red branches of the red willow:

Or , with one finger,

Move the leaf in the bowl-

The leaf that has fallen from the branches of the forsythia

Beside you...

What is all this?

I know how furiously your  heart is beating.


Posted On: 02/18/09


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