Status Updates From The Collected Poems

kind of unmethodically reading poems, noncommittally lol, bc Stevens does intimidate me. It kind of blows me away how at times Stevens sounds nearly identical to Ashbery:

Do you remember how the rocket went on
And on, at night, exploding finally
In an ovation of resplendent forms—

Ovation on ovation of large blue men
In pantaloons of fire and of women hatched,
Like molten citizens of the vacuum?…