Date: 1912
"Who does not harbor in his breast / The fruitage of forbidden things / Culled from beauty's lips and heart, / And folded in between the leaves / Of memory's roll of reveries."
preview | full record— Beadle, Samuel Alfred (1857-1932)
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: 1960
"Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants."
preview | full record— Quine, W. V. O. (1908-2000)
Date: August, 1965
"His mind's all black thickets / and blood."
preview | full record— Harrison, Jim (1937-2016)
Date: 1972
"Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, / Blowing through the jasmine in my mind."
preview | full record— Seals, Jim (b. 1941) and Dash Crofts (b. 1940)
Date: 1990
"I did not know the soul / is cleaved so that the soul might be restored. / Live wood hewn, / its sap springs from a sticky wound."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
Date: 2001
"The mind is like those floating islands of vegetation whose roots grasp not the earth but each other."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: January 25, 2005
"And each morning she wakes / With a dream to describe / Something lovely that bloomed / In her beautiful mind."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: December 14, 2009
"That'll keep them brain-chained to their trees."
preview | full record— Wright, Franz (b.1953)
Date: 2010
"Yet somehow, while he'd slept, the name had taken up residence in his head, as if he'd gone to sleep listening to a song played over and over, the lyrics digging a rut into his brain like a plow, and now part of his mind was still in that rut and couldn't get out."
preview | full record— Cronin, Justin