Wallace Stevens. Fabliau of Florida. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Fabliau of Florida

By Wallace Stevens


From “Pecksniffiana” BARQUE of phosphor
On the palmy beach,

Move outward into heaven,
Into the alabasters
And night blues.	5

Foam and cloud are one.
Sultry moon-monsters
Are dissolving.

Fill your black hull
With white moonlight.	10

There will never be an end
To this droning of the surf.