somethingdarker | Potential Titles: John Updike

By the dignity of destination - John Updike "Americana"

In the transfixed air - John Updike "Americana"

Their piecemeal, choked descent - John Updike "Americana"

The tiny wild knot of a heart - John Updike "Bird Caught in My Deer Netting"

Rich in broken glass - John Updike "Chicory"

The Horizon a Truce - John Updike "December, Outdoors"

Accepts the sun as an equal - John Updike "December, Outdoors"

The web of sticky seconds - John Updike "December Sun"

The silent years skipped over - John Updike "Doo-Wap"

Wake alone and older - John Updike "Endpoint"

A sprawl of other lives - John Updike "Endpoint"

Serve from bleak necessity - John Updike "Endpoint"

Are not so smoothly fooled - John Updike "Endpoint"

The sun's dark kiss - John Updike "Endpoint"

Warmed to metal's kiss - John Updike "Endpoint"

In its sacredness destroyed - John Updike "Endpoint"

With what stoic delicacy - John Updike "Endpoint"

So solvent a peace - John Updike "Endpoint"

Forgave me for existing - John Updike "Endpoint"

Has no bottom in my mind - John Updike "Endpoint"

Lived as if within forever - John Updike "Endpoint"

With impalpable winds of dread - John Updike "Endpoint"

And abrupt perspectives - John Updike "Endpoint"

Beneath the black unheeding waves - John Updike "Endpoint"

Join the seasonal escape - John Updike "Endpoint"

Met indulgent spirits - John Updike "Endpoint"

Whispered friendly oracles - John Updike "Endpoint"

As minutes drop from life - John Updike "Endpoint"

Through sliding thicknesses of time - John Updike "Endpoint"

So unforeseeably alone - John Updike "Endpoint"

Aspiring like steeples - John Updike "Endpoint"

A trickle of ignored joy - John Updike "Flight to Limbo"

And howling winds of inspiration - John Updike "For Peter Davison"

A cloud of equal weight - John Updike "Half Moon, Small Cloud"

Dust collected in orbs - John Updike "Half Moon, Small Cloud"

An illusion of fortress strength - John Updike "The Hedge"

Remembers a proximate star - John Updike "Hiroshima, 2000"

Amid unblemished guests - John Updike "Hiroshima, 2000"

Vault into the impossible - John Updike "Icarus"

Against the numbed sky - John Updike "Icarus"

Within my witness - John Updike "In the Cemetery High Above Shillington"

Protest against the forgetting - John Updike "In the Cemetery High Above Shillington"

The painted shell of disbelief - John Updike "Jacopo Pontormo"

Nude as spirit's outer form - John Updike "Lucian Freud"

Taken by hungry earth - John Updike "Lunar Eclipse"

Half dipped in dark - John Updike "Lunar Eclipse"

Impervious in its momentum - John Updike "Lunar Eclipse"

In ashes light years deep - John Updike "Lunar Eclipse"

In predestination's kiln - John Updike "Marine Hotel, North Berwick, Scotland, May 1998"

All our atoms rearranged - John Updike "Mars as Bright as Venus"

Complete with names - John Updike "Montes Veneris"

Rise like thirsty thunder - John Updike "New York City"

And call their pit a throne - John Updike "New York City"

By what raw sight absorbs - John Updike "Ocular Hypertension"

A killing precision in each - John Updike "The Old Bills"

By the light of dying gods - John Updike "The Old Bills"

Dividends of damage - John Updike "One Tough Keratosis"

Unfathomable trafficking of dust - John Updike "One Tough Keratosis"

How to Go Unscorched - John Updike "Outliving One's Father"

Through years he never endured - John Updike "Outliving One's Father"

A savage dream of order - John Updike "Phnom Penh"

Stray chunks of the undeveloped moon - John Updike "Phoenix"

Will drink the Salt - John Updike "Phoenix"

All struggling not to die - John Updike "Phoenix"

With hunger the unstated core - John Updike "Pura Vida"

Certain of its ancient ground - John Updike "Reality"

Nowhere but where it will occur - John Updike "Requiem"

Can afford to be elsewhere - John Updike "Slum Lords"

That dwindled residue - John Updike "Song of Myself"

Who know no void nor common sense - John Updike "Song of Myself"

Among sleep's tranced citizenry - John Updike "Song of Myself"

The threads of yesterday - John Updike "Song of Myself"

Affording itself no holiday - John Updike "A Sound Heard Early on the Morning of Christ's Nativity"

Just trying brightness out - John Updike "Stretch"

Old snow in their shade - John Updike "Stretch"

Squared by a billion prayers - John Updike "Subcontinental"

A vein of naked light - John Updike "Thunderstorm in Dorset, Vermont"

To host a thunderstorm - John Updike "Thunderstorm in Dorset, Vermont"

Unfurls in supple gusts - John Updike "Thunderstorm in Dorset, Vermont"

With sheer blithe being - John Updike "To a Skylark"

Hellbent on election - John Updike "To Two of My Characters"

Protocols of great discretion - John Updike "Transparent Strategems"

Shares the table with deceit - John Updike "Transparent Strategems"

Death knows who is here - John Updike "Transparent Strategems"

Lighter than accustomed air - John Updike "Vacation Place"

A wealth of wasps - John Updike "Vero Beach Birthday"

In terms of interrupted innocence - John Updike "The Witnesses"

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