The Sharpener

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"your seven leaves unsheathed"
Stern, Digges, Graves, Dickinson, García Lorca
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"You can either make love or die at the hands of the Cobra Commander"
Mayer, Dugan, Zwaal, Estep
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Craft: Ai
Ai (b. Florence Anthony, 1947-2010) wrote extreme narrative poems, pushing narrative as far as possible. Known for her unsettling, and thoroughly…
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"needful to someone"
O'Hara, Ryan, Saroyan, White, Valentine
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"Looks back at you in miniature"
Mezey, Anonymous, Sherwood, Dugan, Szymborska
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"a thicket of silver leaves"
Bronk, Gurney, Mueller, Boey, Herbert
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"With a whisper no one understands"
Wylie, Israeli, Bradley, Buson, Dickinson
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"this squat package of sounds"
Ashbery, Etter, Dahle, Atkins, Young, Melville
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