"some oscarboscarbinary bevy"
Davis, Muldoon, Murray, Dickinson, Nash, Johnson
Lydia Davis:
Paul Muldoon:
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Les Murray:
Emily Dickinson:
A Clover’s simple / Fame / Remembered of the / Cow / Is sweeter than / enamelled Realms / Of notoriety -
Ogden Nash:
Robert Johnson, “Milkcow’s Calf Blues,” rec. January 20, 1937:
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That Les Murray poem…💔
I love Davis’s shift in light.