"I will let the odd curve merge"
Bonnefoy, Williams, Dickinson, Roethke, Hunt, Muldoon
Yves Bonnefoy:
Since thanks to poetry the world is closer, and its unity more perceptible, we feel more part of that unity: like the leaf of a tree, even if it falls off the branch, in an instant that is eternal. So what is death?
William Carlos Williams
Near a waterfall / How much / How much / How much does / it cost / to love the
Emily Dickinson:
Emerging from / an Abyss and / entering it again / That is Life, is / it not
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Theodore Roethke:
Erica Hunt:
Richard Hugo:
Paul Muldoon:
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