"The spectre of solidities"

Hughes, Dickinson, Lecompte, Forbes, Lima

Langston Hughes:

Emily Dickinson:

We do not know the time / we lose - / The awful moment is / And takes its fundamental / place / Among the certainties - // A firm appearance still / inflates / The card - the chance - / the friend - / The spectre of solidities / Whose substances are sand -

Delphine Lecompte (tr. from Dutch by Rosalind Buck):

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Calvin Forbes:

Frank Lima:

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