(For Wallace Stevens) br br The scholars stalking first ideas ransack br his park for origins; they frisk each bush br for cryptic tropes and trample ferns to mark br correlatives, perhaps unearth a cache br of adages or orb of opulence br to add to his beguiling arabesques, br those acts of mind, his fictive world. They sense br he's there, a fugitive from asterisks. br br An emblematic toad anticipates br that Hartford's purple light will soon congeal br and close the park; then he'll articulate br the prodigies imagined from the real br and decreate the world to civil song: br he bides his breath and holds his triggered tongue.