"Such are the inlets of / the mind"
Kafka, Dickinson, Sexton, Joudah, Levertov, Davis
Franz Kafka (tr. from German by Shelley Frisch):
Emily Dickinson:
I feel Barefoot all over / as the Boys say / Such are the inlets of / the mind - /
His outlets - would you [know] see / Ascend with me the [- Table Land] / eminence
Of Immortality -
Anne Sexton:
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Fady Joudah:
Denise Levertov:
Walter Davis, Jr., “Minor Mind,” rec. 1959:
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