butterfly
Bima ̅VDCCLXXX
Her purpose holds / To sail beyond the sunset
As she contemplates her portrait, it looks up at her, rises from the book of engravings, joins her in the air, and leaves the cabinet des estampes back on the earth
Debussy weather
Qui reste à sa place
Et ne danse pas
De quelque disgrâce
Fait l’aveu tout bas
Please not an airport. Please not Duino Elegy I. Please not a metaphor.
Can you look in the spirit of Gertrude Stein’s saying, “One sees what one sees”?
It may be impossible. It certainly may be absurd to say “One.”
Mr. Stevens’s final poem
The palm at the end of the mind,
Beyond the last thought
