Anecdote of the Jar

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

  • The "Dominion Wide Mouth" Jar said to be (by Roy Harvey Pearce) the "source" for the "Anecdote of the Jar."


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