"relics of vanished animals"
Ruefle, Dickinson, Merwin, Hughes, Kasischke, Boggs, Edmonson
Mary Ruefle:
Emily Dickinson:
Luck is not chance— / It’s Toil— / Fortune’s expensive smile / Is earned—
The Father of the Mine / Is that old—fashioned Coin / [Disowned]—We spurned—
W.S. Merwin:
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Langston Hughes:
Laura Kasischke:
Dock Boggs, “Hard Luck Blues,” rec. March 10, 1927:
Kat Edmonson, “Lucky,” rec. 2012:
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