"substance and increase"
Yevtushenko, Dickinson, Whitman, Koch, Larkin
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (tr. from Russian by Albert C. Todd):
Emily Dickinson:
Sweet friends - / I send / a message of / a mouth that / cannot speak. The Ecstasy / to guess, / Were a receipted / Bliss / If Grace could / talk - / with love -
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