World Poetry Translation Project

Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live The Minimal by Theodore Roethke I study the lives on a leaf: the little Sleepers, numb nudgers in cold dimensions, Beetles in caves, newts, stone-deaf fishes, Lice tethered to long limp subterranean weeds, Squirmers in bogs, And bacterial creepers Wriggling through wounds Like elvers in ponds, Their wan mouths kissing the warm sutures, Cleaning and caressing, Creeping and healing. American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish

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Poems by Theodore Roethke Cuttings Dolor Elegy For Jane Epidermal Macabre In A Dark Time I Knew A Woman Journey Into The Interior My Papas Waltz Night Journey Pickle Belt Root Cellar Snake The Far Field The Geranium The Minimal The Reckoning The Saginaw Song The Sloth The Storm The Waking

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T.S. Eliot	Ted Hughes	Ted Kooser
Theodore Roethke	Thom Gunn	Thomas Carew
Thomas Flatman	Thomas Gray	Thomas Hardy
Thomas Otway	Thomas Warton	Tony Harrison

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