Both+Sides+Now

from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
[| Wallace Stevens]

I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. III The blackbird whirled in the autumn wind It was a small part of the pantomime. VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro. The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause. XII The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. XIII It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.

Georgia O'KeeffeJack-in-Pulpit - No. II & VI, 1930 Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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