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Michael Benedikt

Poetry

Autumn/ September 1969

Fate in Incognito

By Michael Benedikt

At last I can figure out the nature of that whisking sound which I hear whenever I leave the room It is not really the sound of wind through television […]

Poetry

Autumn/ September 1969

Rose

By Michael Benedikt

She makes herself a rose by standing around in your mind, growing, She stands there on one leg and she says thorny things But every time the sun comes she […]