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Two Figures in Dense Violet Light

I had as lief be embraced by the portier of the

As to get no more from the

Than your moist hand.

Be the voice of the night and Florida in my ear.

Use dasky words and dusky images.

Darken your speech.

Speak, even, as if I did not hear you speaking,

But spoke for you perfectly in my thoughts,

Conceiving words,

As the night conceives the sea-sound in silence,

And out of the droning sibilants makesA serenade.

Say, puerile, that the buzzards crouch on the ridge-poleand sleep with one eye watching the stars

Beyond Key West.

Say that the palms are clear in the total blue.

Are clear and are obscure; that it is night;

That the moon shines.

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Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and…

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