"on crumbs of shadow"
Dickinson, Komunyakaa, Plath, Buson, Merwin
Emily Dickinson:
The / Mushroom / is the Elf / of plants - / At Evening / it is not / At Morning, in a Truffled Hut / It stop upon a Spot / As if it tarried always / And yet it's whole Career
Is shorter than a / Snake’s delay / And fleeter than a + Tare —
Yusef Komunyakaa:
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