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Aquí confluimos hacia la única estrella.
Volquémonos amado mío,
dejemos caer los remos
hasta donde la noche no existe.

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Tilsa Otta

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Bin Ramke

Margot the Showman would smile at me, …

Phyllis Haring

Rose in a red glass vase, …

Mary Cass Canfield

Always the caravan of sound made us halt …

Virginia Hamilton Adair

for Daphne …

G. S. Sharat Chandra

MARCH 1988 …

Lisel Mueller

The glossary

From aubade to zuihitsu, 207 definitions of the forms, figures, and schools that shape the line.