AND I WAS ALIVE And I was alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear, Myself I stood in the storm of the bird-cherry tree. It was all leaflife and starshower, unerring, self-shattering power, And it was all aimed at me. What is this dire delight flowering fleeing always earth? What is being? What is […]
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With Death Looming, Two Astonishing Poems of Presence – Mandelstam and Stafford
September 1, 2018 – 6:13 pm