Major American Poets -- Wallace Stevens

                                                                                                            By Lisa Boston Frye

 

                           Murderous Wind

 

              A suffocating wind

              Engulfed the house

              Choked crimson love bland

              Strangled purple passion sand.

              Cruel breath’s blast with killing gale

              Struck hueless-

              Desire, love, and reason.

              Leaving the undead-    

              Indifference, banality, insanity

              In its grim and colorless wake.