Potential Titles: Stiff

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to make a stiff and faultless sky - Elizabeth Bartlett "washday in the tropics"

That stiffens quietly to quartz - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXVIII"

Stiffly ungracious to the wind - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Time settles in a stiffening vertebra like salt - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

A few stiff branches covered with scimitar thorns - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

In the stiff knees of a cypress - Rickey Laurentiis "Black Gentleman"

The stiffening uniform of fame - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Velvet stiff with gold device - Theodore Maynard "The Ships"

The stiff kiss of acorns - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"

Where silence stiffens to rigor mortis - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"

Starfish stiffened by the sun - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Through time's stiffened membrane - Jenny Xie "Expenditures"


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