"My red filaments burn and stand"
Williams, Plath, Robin, Plumly, Glück
C.K. Williams:
Sylvia Plath:
Valencia Robin:
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The last line in Gluck’s poem has me thinking of the ideal and the material--elm is a form for which there are unlimited ways each elm’s materialization takes shape. Iow, from the universal conception to the particular manifestation.