She Who Encounters...

...a lamp post in the forest.

Anecdote of the Jar
By Wallace Stevens

I placed a jar in Tennessee,   
And round it was, upon a hill.   
It made the slovenly wilderness   
Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.   
The jar was round upon the ground   
And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion everywhere.   
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,   
Like nothing else in Tennessee.


Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of a Jar" from Collected Poems.  Copyright 1923, 1951, 1954 by Wallace Stevens.