Metapors of a Magnifico

[dunners]

Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
Into twenty villages,
Or one man
Crossing a single bridge into a village.

This is old song
That will not declare itslef...

Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are
Twenty men crossing a bridge
Into a village.

That will not declare itslef
Yet is certain as meaning...

The boots of the men clump
On the boards of the bridge.
The first white wall of the village
Rises through the fruit-trees.

Of what was I thinking?

So the meaning escapes.

The first white wall of the village...
The fruit trees...

-- Wallace Stevens