<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1">Study of Two Pears</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">I</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">Opusculum paedagogum.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">The pears are not viols,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">nudes or bottles.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1">They resemble nothing else.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">II</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">They are yellow forms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">Composed of curves</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">Bulging toward the base.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1">They are touched red.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">III</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">They are not flat surfaces</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Having curved outlines.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">They are round</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1">tapering toward the top.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">IV</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">In the way they are modelled</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">There are bits of blue.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">A hard dry leaf hangs</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1">From the stem.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">V</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">The yellow glistens.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">It glistens with various yellows,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">Citrons, oranges andn greens</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1">Flowering over the skin.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">VI</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">The shadows of the pears</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">Are blobs on the green cloth.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2">The pears are not seen</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1">As the observer wills.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s3"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- </span><span class="s2">Wallace Stevens</span></div></body></html>