"A green world"
Bashō, Koch, Dickinson, Glück, Bronk, Zimmer
Matsuo Bashō (tr. from Japanese by R.H. Blyth):
Kenneth Koch:
Emily Dickinson:
To see the Summer Sky / Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— / True Poems flee
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