"Block it up / With Other"
Dickinson, Swir, Césaire, Mead, Mayer
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To fill a Gap / Insert the Thing that / caused it - / Block it up / With Other - and 'twill / yawn the more - / You cannot solder an / Abyss / With Air -
Anna Swir (tr. from Polish by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan):
Aimé Césaire (tr. from French by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith):
Bernadette Mayer:
Sometimes Emily‘s poems show up just when they should. It’s as if her spirit is reading my mind. Thank you.