You remain the more than natural figure. You
Become the soft-footed phantom, the irrationalDistortion, however fragrant, however dear.
That's it: the more than rational distortion,
The fiction that results from feeling. Yes, that. (Wallace Stevens)

You remain the more than natural figure. You Become the soft-footed phantom, the irrationalDistortion, however fragrant, however dear. That's it: the more than rational distortion, The fiction that results from feeling. Yes, that.

Wallace Stevens

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