"And filter and fiber your blood"
Whitman, Różewicz, Dickinson, Merwin, Allen
Walt Whitman:
Tadeusz Różewicz (tr. from Polish by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire):
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Emily Dickinson:
To flee from memory / Had we the Wings / Many would fly / Inured to [other] slower
things / Birds with [surprise] dismay / Would scan the / eager [breathless/hurrying/thrilling] Van of men escaping / From the mind / of man [fluttering van cowering van]
Korean figure (tr. by W.S. Merwin):
Samuel Allen:
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