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