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EARTHY ANECDOTE by WALLACE STEVENS

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First Line: EVERY TIME THE BUCKS WENT CLATTERING
Last Line: Later, the firecat closed his bright eyes / and slept
Subject(s): DEER;
Every time the bucks went clattering
Over Oklahoma
A firecat bristled in the way.
Wherever they went,
They went clattering,
Until they swerved,
In a swift, circular line,
To the right,
Because of the firecat.
Or until they swerved,
In a swift, circular line,
To the left,
Because of the firecat.
The bucks clattered.
The firecat went leaping,
To the right, to the left,
And
Bristled in the way.
Later, the firecat closed his bright eyes
And slept.



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