David Ignatow:
Carl Sandberg:
Marge Piercy:
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Barbara Guest:
Emily Dickinson:
The Heart / has many Doors - / I can but / knock - / For any sweet / “Come in”
Impelled to / hark - / Not saddened / by repulse, / Repast to me / That somewhere,/
there exists, / Supremacy - Emily
Kids in the Hall, “Into the Doors:”
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