"Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards"
Hamilton, Dickinson, Keats, Menashe, Celan, Coleman
Saskia Hamilton:
Emily Dickinson:
Though the / Great Waters / sleep, / That they are / still the Deep, / We cannot doubt - // No vacillating / God / Ignited this / Abode / To put it out -
John Keats:
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Samuel Menashe:
Paul Celan (tr. from German by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov):
Ornette Coleman, “Sleep Talking,” rec. 2005:
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