"The mounting tension and the spasm"
Atwood, Curdy, Edson, Dickinson, Schuyler
Margaret Atwood:
Averill Curdy:
Russell Edson:
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Emily Dickinson:
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James Schuyler:
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Counting Sheep is very, very funny! Too bad many insurance companies will not cover surgery costs for alleviating sleep apnea....a pink bud swelling like a peony from this lizards throat...
Atwood is such a fine poet. Most of her readers, I’m guessing, have not read her poems though. If she didn’t write fiction too I think she’d have a blazing career as a poet - she can probably write anything.