I am the spouse. She took her necklace off And laid it in t… - Wallace Stevens

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I am the spouse. She took her necklace off And laid it in the sand. As I am, I am The spouse. She opened her stone-studded belt.<p> I am the spouse, divested of bright gold, The spouse beyond emerald or amethyst, Beyond the burning body that I bear. <p>I am the woman stripped more nakedly Than nakedness, standing before an inflexible Order, saying I am the contemplated spouse.

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Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.

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