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The Past, 1985

Marina Tsvetayeva, In the Inmost Hour of the Soul,


1915, translated by Nina Kossman

Fishes, birds, First Four Book of Poems, 1995


their heart we do not know:
seeing the year off.

Matsuo Basho Fanning the rice,


his wife prepares a special treat—
the cool of evening
Matsuo Basho
A silent spring wood:
A crow opens its sharp beak
And creates a sky.
Richard Wright (1908-1960)

Lorna Dee Cervantes.


From the Cables of Genocide:
Poems on Love and Hunger, 1991

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