"In casual simplicity - invincible little stone -"
Tranströmer, Wright, Jeffers, Niedecker, Dickinson
Tomas Tranströmer (tr. from Swedish by Martin Allwood):
C.D. Wright:
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Robinson Jeffers:
Lorine Niedecker:
Emily Dickinson:
How happy is the little stone [UPSIDE DOWN competent simplicity] / alone that rambles in the Road alone / And doesn’t care about careers - / And Exigencies never - fears / Whose Coat of elemental Brown / A passing Universe put - on / [Who] And independent as the sun / Associates - or basks alone - // invincible little stone - / associates or links with none - glows alone
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