"through a complicated pipework"

Whitman, Dickinson, Blount, Alomar, Amichai

Walt Whitman:

Emily Dickinson:

To the stanch / Dust / We safe commit / thee - / Tongue if it hath, / Inviolate to thee - / Silence - denote - / And Sanctity -/ enforce thee - / Passenger - of / Infinity - / Emily

Tommye Blount:

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Osama Alomar (tr. from Arabic by Osama Alomar and C.J. Collins):

Yehuda Amichai (tr. from Hebrew by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell):

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