305529, Wallace Stevens: Bantams in Pine Woods Posted by TurkeylegJenkins, Fri Aug-03-07 01:32 PM
Bantams in Pine-Woods
Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan Of tan with henna hackles, halt!
Damned universal cock, as if the sun Was blackamoor to bear your blazing tail.
Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat! I am the personal. Your world is you. I am my world.
You ten-foot poet among inchlings. Fat! Begone! An inchling bristles in these pines,
Bristles, and points their Appalachian tangs, And fears not portly Azcan nor his hoos.
-- Wallace Stevens
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