As the immense dew of Florida Brings forth The big-finned palm And green vine angering for life, As the immense dew of Florida Brings forth hymn and hymn From the beholder, Beholding all these green sides And gold sides of green sides, And blessed mornings, Meet for the eye of the young alligator, And lightning colors So, in me, come flinging Forms, flames, and the flakes of flames.
From Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens. Copyright © 1923, 1951, 1954 by Wallace Stevens. Reprinted with permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.