Tattoo (poem)

"Tattoo" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium.

[1] Librivox has made the poem available in voice recording in its The Complete Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens.

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.

Buttel detects Imagistic technique in the poem's Whitman-like naming of physical details.