"Glass was / the Street -/ in Tinsel / Peril"
Ammons, Hughes, Kaufman, Dickinson, Creeley, Coleman
A.R. Ammons:
Langston Hughes:
Bob Kaufman:
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Emily Dickinson:
Glass was / the Street -/ in Tinsel / Peril / Tree and / Traveller stood. / Filled was / the Air with / merry venture / Hearty with / Boys the / Road. // Shot the lithe / Sleds like / Shod vibrations / Emphacized and gone / It is the / Past's supreme / italic / Makes the / Present mean
Robert Creeley:
Ornette Coleman, “Street Woman,” rec. September 9, 1971:
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