Mary Leader:
Miroslav Holub (tr. from Czech by George Theiner):
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Emily Dickinson:
Could I - then - / shut the door - / Lest my beseeching / face - at last - / Rejected - be - of Her?
Robert Creeley:
Simone Weil:
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Charles Tomlinson:
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Oof. Her door. As a mother, this one hit.