"in a meadow of dust"
Meyers, Niedecker, Flaubert, Tranströmer, Cohen
Bert Meyers:
Lorine Niedecker:
You will / arrange to / better me when / the pastry / comes and / cherries are / such double - / days.
Gustave Flaubert:
I shall return to my poor, dull quiet life, in which a phrase is an adventure and metaphors are the only flowers I pick.
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