Harmonium (Stevens)/In the Carolinas

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First published in the January 1917 issue of The Soil: A Magazine of Art, p. 78, as part of a group of poems collectively captioned Primordia.

131072Harmonium — In the CarolinasWallace Stevens

In the Carolinas

The lilacs wither in the Carolinas.
Already the butterflies flutter above the cabins.
Already the new-born children interpret love
In the voices of mothers.

Timeless mother,
How is it that your aspic nipples
For once vent honey?

The pine-tree sweetens my body.
The white iris beautifies me.