"whose breath is a verb"
Meyers, Hacker, Mông-Lan, Djordjević, Jung, Hooker
Bert Meyers:
Marilyn Hacker:
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Mông-Lan:
Milan Djordjević (tr. from Serbian by Charles Simic):
Jung Kut-byol (tr. from Korean by Chae-Pyong Song and Anne Rashid):
John Lee Hooker, “Onions,” rec. 1962:
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I'll never be able to get a clove of garlic ready for mincing again without thinking "The rabbi of condiments,/"
All beautiful poems. But I thought of the first one while reading the others. 😊