"Because of the increasing Night"
Fairchild, Laing, Guest, Dickinson, Yeats
B.H. Fairchild:
Dilys Bennett Laing:
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Barbara Guest:
Emily Dickinson:
Long Years apart - can make no / Breach a second cannot fill - / + [Who saps] The absence of a the Witch cannot does not / Invalidates a the spell? - // The embers of a Thousand Years / Uncovered by the Hand / That fondled them when they were Fire / Will gleam and understand [Dim - Far]
W.B. Yeats:
Albert Ayler, “Ghosts,” rec. July 10, 1964:
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The Barbara Guest poem is stunning—“the vase grips the stems”! What sound.