"I lay down under language"
Dickinson, Zhadan, Merwin, Wakoski, Valentine
Emily Dickinson:
After a hundred years / Nobody knows the Place / Agony that enacted there / Motionless as Peace // Weeds triumphant / ranged / Strangers strolled and / spelled / At the lone Orthography / Of the Elder Dead // Winds of Summer / Fields / Recollect the way— / Instinct picking / up the Key / Dropped by memory—
Serhiy Zhadan (tr. from Ukrainian by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps):
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Korean figure (tr. by W.S. Merwin):
Diane Wakoski:
Jean Valentine:
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