"The crystals show a future with you happening in it"
Buffam, Crane, Clifton, Dickinson, Gilbert
Suzanne Buffam:
Hart Crane:
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Lucille Clifton:
Emily Dickinson:
To mend each tattered Faith / There is a needle fair / Though no appearance indicate— / It is threaded in the Air— // And though it do not wear / As if it never Tore / 'Tis very comfortable indeed / And spacious as before—
Christopher Gilbert:
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