"a phantom curiously floating"
Whitman, Heaney, Wakoski, Dickinson, Jacobs
Walt Whitman:
Seamus Heaney:
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Emily Dickinson:
Ideals are the / Fairy Oil / With which We / help the Wheel - / But when the / Vital Axle turns - / The Eye rejects / the Oil - / Emily
Jessica Jacobs:
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