Wallace Stevens - O Florida, Venereal Soil lyrics

[Wallace Stevens - O Florida, Venereal Soil lyrics]

A few things for themselves
Convolvulus and coral
Buzzards and live-moss
Tiestas from the keys
A few things for themselves
Florida, venereal soil
Disclose to the lover

The dreadful sundry of this world
The Cuban, Polodowsky, the Mexican women
The negro undertaker
Killing the time between corpses
Fishing for crayfish
Virgin of boorish births

Swiftly in the nights
In the porches of Key West
Behind the bougainvilleas
After the guitar is asleep
Lasciviously as the wind
You come tormenting, insatiable

When you might sit, a scholar of darkness
Sequestered over the sea
Wearing a clear tiara
Of red and blue and red
Sparkling, solitary, still
In the high sea-shadow

Donna, donna, dark, stooping in indigo gown
And cloudy constellations
Conceal yourself or disclose
Fewest things to the lover -
A hand that bears a thick leaved fruit
A pungent bloom against your shade

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