Sunday, March 13, 2011

An Idea of Order (Wallace Stevens)


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Cargo containers strewn about by tsunami in Sendai, northern Japan, Saturday 12 March 2011: photo by AP/Itsuo Inouye




If it was only the dark voice of the sea
That rose, or even colored by many waves...







Cars which were swept together by tsunami and then caught fire, after earthquake in Hitaichi City, Ibaraki Prefecture, 12 March 2011: photo by Reuters/Yomiuri


Wallace Stevens: The Idea of Order at Key West (excerpt), from Ideas of Order, 1936