"like wet dynamite"
Mitchell, Givhan, Dickinson, Perillo, Holub
Susan Mitchell:
Jennifer Givhan:
Emily Dickinson:
It stole along / so stealthy / Suspicion it was / done / Was dim as to / the wealthy / Beginning not to / own -
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Lucia Perillo:
Miroslav Holub (tr. from Czech by David Young and Dana Hábová):
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We are all robber barons, thieves of thought we don't quite understand, inheritance we were denied, a kindness of poverty.