It's April Fools Day (so beware) and it's the first day of Poetry Month. To commemorate the two, I have mashed up two well-known poems (William Wordworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and Wallace Steven's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) with some of my own words to create a daffy poem. Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Daffodil I After the gray snow melts, The only moving thing: A host of daffodils. II I was of two minds, Wandering … [Read more...]
Wallace Stevens
Part II From my balcony, I survey the yellow air, Reading where I have written, "The spring is like a belle undressing." From “Of the Surface of Things” by Wallace Stevens, which appears in Harmonium, published by Alfred A. Knopf. … [Read more...]