"Cut my shadow from me"
Brautigan, Adair, Lorca, Djordjević, Villa
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Federico García Lorca (tr. from Spanish by Jerome Rothenberg):
Milan Djordjević (tr. from Serbian by Charles Simic):
Charles Mingus, “Orange was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk,” rec. March 18, 1964:
All of them! Orange, which is rhymeless? (thank you, Sean)
I've loved that VHA poem since the '90s — so good!🍊