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Wallace Stevens says,
"A poet looks at the world
as a man looks at a woman.
"

I can never know what a man sees
when he looks at a woman.


That is a sealed universe.


On the outside of the bubble
everything is stretched to infinity.


Along the blacktop, trees are bearded as old men,
like rows of nodding gray-bearded mandarins.

Their secondhand beards were spun by female gypsy moths.


All mandarins are trapped in their images.


A poet looks at the world
as a woman looks at a man.
 

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