"your craft shows"
Bronk, Stern, Lorde, Supervielle, Roethke
William Bronk:
Gerald Stern:
Audre Lorde:
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Jules Supervielle (tr. from French by Moniza Alvi):
Theodore Roethke:
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The translation of the French is not quite right, I think. "If there were no trees at my window/to come and look into the deepest part of me/my heart, offered up to its burning laws/ would have ceased to beat long ago."