SOON YOU WILL REST AS WELL
by Robin Boothroyd
In 1780, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe carved this poem into the wall of a wooden hut in the Thuringian Forest.
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149 years later, Federico García Lorca wrote a letter to his family on a strip of birch bark from Vermont.
Poems don’t have to live on the page.
The Cold Tap Sings 