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Bogs churning with bullfrogs - Diane Seuss "Curl"

Outside the old pickle shop - Diane Seuss "Curl"

Turned into carnations for parade floats - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"

Caskets filled with black feathers - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"

Let me resurrect beyond the bracken - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"

From the mouth of a wax museum troubadour - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"

Maybe all arrive in their own time - Diane Seuss "Gertrude Stein"

The milkweeds splitting at the seams - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

The wings and hollow bones of a damp bird - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Fugitive cows known for escaping - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Known for escaping their borders - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Fields of needles arranged into flowers - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Their sharp ends meeting at the center - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Fluttering skirts of opium poppies - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Nests in the crooks of their granite limbs - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

And rabbits that are mystics - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

And moons never stay put - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

The ones that scream to announce themselves - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Until their black feathers are edged in gold - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Little gods and devils trying out their wings - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

A paradise of vagaries - Diane Seuss "I Look Up from My Book and Out at the World through Reading Glasses"

Leashed with a measure of anchor rope - Diane Seuss "Jesus, with his cup"

An exile in a self-made skiff - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

In the middle of a tortured sea - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

Nature is what you have done to it - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

Stripping the pods from garden peas in the suburbs - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

A number of which will legitimize their presence - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

Rabbits leap in patterns across boulevards - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

That has evolved toward wickedness - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

As they disappear through the tunnel of flowers - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

Telling you my particular troubles - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

Value in comparing notes - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

I have no prescriptions for you - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

The particular nature and tenor of the energy - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

The energy of our trouble - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

I'm capable of hallucination - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

Teetering into platitudes - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

Truth is the raw material of wisdom - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

A shot of whiskey without embellishment - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

Truth lays bare the broken bone - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

Dangerous to approach such a question - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

Invent new mechanisms of caring - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

A degree of seeing through time - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

Male poets of the lavishly grotesque - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

Those content with stale orthodoxies - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

The bedside of the dying world - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

An arrow without a target - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"

Silence has its own roar - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"

Alert to what silence has to offer - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"

Sadness shapes the landscape - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"

Some sweet but dangerous morsel - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"

Remember the black cherries' gleam - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

Respond only to the absolute present tense - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

The barn swallows' sharp flight and cry - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

The luxury of emptiness or peace - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

The mind like a jackrabbit bounding - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

Hair tonics by color like a spectrum - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

Mountains of oyster shells gleaming silver - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

Opened milkweed with no agenda - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

Using the Black Sea as a mirror - Diane Seuss "Song in My Heart"

Unexceptional as a rain gauge - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"

Joy, which is also a dishsoap - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"

Irony being the flip side of sentimentality - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"

Ironing out the kinks in despair - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"

The beauty of a mass of chrysanthemums - Diane Seuss "[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, covered]"

Even the molecule I allowed myself to feel - Diane Seuss "[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, covered]"

The yarrow-edged side roads we walked barefoot - Diane Seuss "Toad"

Part of the road's story - Diane Seuss "Toad"

Wanting a transfusion of the reader's life blood - Diane Seuss "Toad"

The seam of its mouth glued shut - Diane Seuss "Toad"

Respite risks entrapment - Diane Seuss "Weeds"

The sweet smell of weeds - Diane Seuss "Weeds"


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