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: 1965
"The ripe brain rotting like a yellow nut / Hatching / Its babel of sea-lice, sandfly, and maggot."
preview | full record— Walcott, Derek (b. 1930)
Date: 2000
"As I breathed in I could feel my consciousness expanding along a glistening spider's web of total connectedness and as I exhaled it accordioned back into the tropical richness of my body, the streams and rivers of my blood."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)