Arts & Sciences
Tattoo
From Harmonium (1923)
Arts & Sciences
The light is like a spider.
It crawls over the water.
It crawls over the edges of the snow.
It crawls under your eyelids
And spreads its webs there--
Its two webs.
The webs of your eyes
Are fastened
To the flesh and bones of you
As to rafters or grass.
There are filaments of your eyes
On the surface of the water
And in the edges of the snow.
Cite this poem
MLA
Stevens, Wallace. “Tattoo.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/59/.
Chicago
Stevens, Wallace. “Tattoo.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/59/.
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