Opusculum paedagogicum<br>The pears are not viols,<br>Nudes or bottles.<br>They resemble nothing else.<br><br>They are yellow forms<br>Composed of curves<br>Bulging toward the base.<br>They are touched red.<br><br>They are not flat surfaces<br>Having curved outlines.<br>They are round<br>Tapering toward the top.<br><br>In the way they are modelled<br>There are bits of blue.<br>A hard dry leaf hangs<br>From the stem.<br><br>The yellow glistens.<br>It glistens with various yellows,<br>Citrons, oranges and greens<br>Flowering over the skin.<br><br>The shadows of the pears<br>Are blobs on the green cloth.<br>The pears are not seen<br>As the observer wills.

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens