"Without her/ Diadem -"
Bronk, Jiménez, Menashe, Gregg, Dickinson
William Bronk:
Juan Ramón Jiménez (tr. from Spanish by H.R. Hays):
Samuel Menashe:
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Linda Gregg:
Emily Dickinson:
The Sky is low -/ the Clouds are/ mean. / A Travelling Flake/ of Snow / Across a Barn/ or through a/ Rut / Debates if it will / go - / A Narrow Wind complains all Day / How some one treated / him / Nature, like Us // is sometimes caught / Without her/ Diadem -
Kobayashi Issa (tr. from Japanese by Robert Hass):
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