It is deep January. The sky is hard.
The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.

It is in this solitude, a syllable,
Out of these gawky flitterings,

Intones its single emptiness,
The savagest hollow of winter-sound.

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Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.

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