"I'm just like a pile of leaves"
Ryan, O'Hara, Holub, Dickinson, Knott
Kay Ryan:
Frank O’Hara:
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Miroslav Holub (tr. from Czech by David Young and Dana Hábová):
Emily Dickinson:
To pity those who [that] / know her not / Is helped [soothed] by the regret /
That those who / know her know her less / The nearer her they / get -
How adequate the / Human Heart / To its emergency - / Intrenchment stimulates / a friend / And stems [balks] an enemy
Bill Knott:
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