"the nothing beyond time"
Tōge, Corso, Ai, Stafford, Amichai
Sankichi Tōge (tr. from Japanese by Karen Thornber):
Gregory Corso:
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Ai:
William Stafford:
Yehuda Amichai (tr. from Hebrew by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell):
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The ending of the Amichai poem. Oof. Just a serious gut punch.
There is so much going on with the poems. But I love the specificity in choice of a prelude to yearn for what cannot be. What cannot be given back.