2021-11-13 World Kindness Day 【The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain (1954)】 Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) There it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain.
He breathed its oxygen, Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table.
It reminded him how he had needed A place to go to in his own direction,
How he had recomposed the pines, Shifted the ro |