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Date: December, 1917
"I was of three minds, / Like a tree / In which there are three blackbirds."
preview | full record— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
Date: 1936
"Lids closed, the eyes are watchful; the brain / carefully stalks the thought like a tiger / following the accurately-scented prey / through tangled jungle foliage."
preview | full record— Edwin Rolfe (1909-1954)
Date: 1988
"Mind in its purest play is like some bat / That beats about in caverns all alone, / Contriving by a kind of senseless wit / Not to conclude against a wall of stone."
preview | full record— Wilbur, Richard (1921- )
