"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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