from “Stay Songs for Stanley Whitney” [5]
There will be
time
then
there will be
song
for the paintings
say
stay
From Fate News (Omnidawn, 2018). Copyright © 2018 by Norma Cole. Used with the permission of Omnidawn Publishing.
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