"Bunches its knobby browns"
Kenyon, Plath, Komunyakaa, Kyoruku, Heaney, Brown, Armstrong
Jane Kenyon:
Sylvia Plath:
Yusef Komunyakaa:
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Kyoroku (tr. from Japanese by R.H. Blyth):
Seamus Heaney:
James Brown, “(Do The) Mashed Potatoes (Pt. 1),” rec. 1962:
Louis Armstrong, “Potato Head Blues,” rec. 1927:
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