early modern European
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spring was arranged on a handcart
spring was arranged on a handcartover a road ruttedby plough wheels rolledout of one of schonburg’svillages that are near neighbors to the towna young peasant’s wifepulled her cart out of winterflax spun into thread and wound around spindles and flax woven into shirts into wimples and bonnetswool woven into doublets and tunicsthe itch woven into… Continue reading
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the crown of elsinore is a wooden floor
the crown of elsinore is a wooden flooras fortinbras still wearselsinore like he wears the diademof denmark on his headand on his finger the gold bandthat weds him to the queen of norwayas he wears what he wearsto appear kingit’s those planks over which i once walkedon which for two nights i stoodwith the guardsmen… Continue reading
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once upon a dawn i wandered out of wittenberg
once upon a dawn i wandered out of wittenbergit was windless the early autumn morningnothing blew and nothing was blownthe sun still silvered the night’s dew on the sodi waited for the watchman to swing open the gatethe road there is narrow as a cartthe road that ends at schonburg’s manorhouseit passes through a peasant… Continue reading
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when his hands carry
when his hands carrythe mouth of the flute away from his mouththe lip of the flute away from his lipheaven carries the cloud away from wittenbergand the rains that all day’ve divedinto the puddle stopand the puddle that all day’s overflowed into trickles away from itselfceases to floodand the tricklebeds carved into the mudby the… Continue reading
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the cloak in which i’d wrapped myself
the cloak in which i’d wrapped myself to warm the irmine lining with my cold i wore to answerhamlet’s knock at the door or claudius’ or gertrude’si answered marcellus’ Continue reading
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let a lesser habsburg softened
let a lesser habsburg softened by the memory of nora’s beauty sighlose sleep daydream bankwith an absent mind lose fortunesgive him that stallion raisedin your father’s stablethat one you rodeinto wittenberg let him saddleride to the low countries to searchto find nora to be soft eyedto a faster meltingsoft voiced into a liquidlet him be… Continue reading
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