Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.

II I put a black thing in a bag, And I put a bag in the river; And the bag was in the river, And the bag was of water.

III The blackbird whistling Or just after.

IV I would whistle, I would Take the blackbird to the cloud; And the blackbird would listen.

V I looked at the blackbird And the blackbird looked at me And no one knew where the other Was from.

VI The blackbird sang.

— Wallace Stevens

• Wallace Stevens