"When Memory is full"

Simic, Dickinson, H.D., Meerbaum-Eisinger, Knežvić, Young

Charles Simic:

Emily Dickinson:

When Memory / is full / Put on the / perfect Lid - / This Morning’s / finest syllable / Presumptuous / Evening said -

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H.D. [Hilda Doolittle]:

Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (tr. from German by Jerry Glenn, Florian Birkmayer, Helene Silverblatt, and Irene Silverblatt):

Marija Knežević (tr. from Serbian by Sibelan Forrester):

Lester Young, “Evenin’,” rec. 1937:

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