"It is a warm green rain"
Gilbert, Cavafy, Jacob, Howe, Kahlo, Dickinson, Coleman, Brautigan
Jack Gilbert:
C.P. Cavafy (trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard):
Max Jacob (trans. William Kulik):
Susan Howe:
Frida Kahlo:
I penetrate the sex of the whole earth, her heat chars me and my entire body is rubbed with the freshness of the tender leaves.
Emily Dickinson:
Soil of Flint, if / Steady tilled— / Will refund the Hand— / Seed of Palm, by / Lybian Sun / Fructified in Sand—
Wanda Coleman:
Richard Brautigan:
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