jar

I placed a jar in Tennessee, 
And round it was, upon a hill. 
It made the slovenly wilderness 
Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it, 
And sprawled around, no longer wild. 
The jar was round upon the ground 
And tall and of a port in air.

Try the Penguin Poems app, to learn some poetry off by heart- like the chunk above from the poem Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens.