"A Borer in the Axis"
Stonecipher, Lee, Dickinson, Özmen, Anonymous
Donna Stonecipher:
Li-Young Lee:
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Emily Dickinson:
Crumbling is not an instant's Act / A fundamental pause / Delapidation's processes / Are organized Decays. // 'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul / A Cuticle of Dust / A Borer in the Axis / An Elemental Rust— // Ruin is formal—Devils work / Consecutive and slow—/ Fail in an instant, no man did / Slipping—is Crashe's law.
Gonca Özmen (tr. from Turkish by Zoë Skoulding & Gonca Özmen):
Anonymous, “The Ruin,” c. 1070:
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