"this blackened disembodied question"
Oswald, Blake, Richardson, Dickinson, Holub
Alice Oswald:
William Blake:
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James Richardson:
Emily Dickinson:
The Butterfly / in honored / dust assuredly / will lie / But none / will pass / the Catacomb / so chastened / as the Fly
Miroslav Holub (tr. from Czech by George Theiner):
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