"a thicket of silver leaves"
Bronk, Gurney, Mueller, Boey, Herbert
William Bronk:
Ivor Gurney:
Lisel Mueller:
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Kim Cheng Boey:
Zbigniew Herbert (tr. from Polish by Alissa Valles):
Glenn Gould, “Goldberg Variation No. 25,” rec. 1981:
Warne Marsh, “Two-part Invention No. 13,” rec. September 14 & October 25, 1969:
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love Harpsichord "a cuckoo entangled in a thicket of silver leaves"
Poems on Bach... The Mueller piece is a comfortable, comforting read; but the Bronk beckoned me back several times, gave me pause, made me feel.