"When mice with wings can wear a human face"
Clifton, Oliver, Levi, Roethke, Morrison, Gibran
Lucille Clifton:
Mary Oliver:
Primo Levi (tr. from Italian by Raymond Rosenthal):
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Theodore Roethke:
Toni Morrison:
Khalil Gibran:
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