"icy spaces and endless mystery"
Dickinson, Valentine, Schuyler, Ceravolo, Kafka, Stravinsky
Emily Dickinson:
That unfrequented / Flower / [upside down: deserving of] Embellish thee—
I was reading a
Jean Valentine:
James Schuyler:
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Joseph Ceravolo:
Franz Kafka (trans. from German by Willa and Edwin Muir):
Igor Stravinsky:
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