Winter 'star'

The “Evening Star” Venus next to the Moon just after sunset.
— image from NASA

“Only this evening I saw again low in the sky
The evening star, at the beginning of winter, the star
That in spring will crown every western horizon….’’

— From “Martial Cadenza,’’ by Wallace Stevens poet (1879-1955), American poet, insurance executive and lawyer. He spent most of his adult life in Hartford, Conn.

Here’s the whole poem.