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Not even the peace of weeping - Lynn Riggs "Angry Sea"

Willows plunging their bloodless roots - Lynn Riggs "The Arid Land"

The hard crooked flying of buzzards - Lynn Riggs "The Arid Land"

Under its iron band of sky - Lynn Riggs "The Arid Land"

Tall crying in the willow reeds - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"

A mirror depthless and deceitful - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"

Clean as a released blade - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"

May wound the water sailed - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"

Speaking of the chiseled weather - Lynn Riggs "Charger"

Even these stumps of cedar - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"

The harsh fruit of the land - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"

If we have demanded this corrosive season - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"

No bitterer than the shrunk grape - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"

The shrunk grape clinging to the wasted stem - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"

A clown with tatters of a joy - Lynn Riggs "The Cross"

A golden javelin to run it through - Lynn Riggs "The Deer"

An arch of iron to frame the sky - Lynn Riggs "Endless Legend"

That hushed and holy space - Lynn Riggs "Endless Legend"

Of jade and silver, of amethyst or clay - Lynn Riggs "Endless Legend"

A crested virtue of his inanchored soul - Lynn Riggs "The Golden Cockerel"

Rest easily in the shadow - Lynn Riggs "The Hollow"

Dandelions bowing gravely to themselves - Lynn Riggs "The Hollow"

And forget the road I have traveled - Lynn Riggs "The Hollow"

Perhaps I shall forget time - Lynn Riggs "The Hollow"

Brought me yellow calendulas - Lynn Riggs "A Letter"

Saying the same thing they said last night - Lynn Riggs "A Letter"

Radiant I stood in silver - Lynn Riggs "Moon"

The lashing, silver whips of the rain - Lynn Riggs "Rhythm of Rain"

Dispelling the hushed dark - Lynn Riggs "Rhythm of Rain"

The thin dun soil of my soul - Lynn Riggs "Rhythm of Rain"

Only the rhythm of the rain - Lynn Riggs "Rhythm of Rain"

Shake the doors of earth - Lynn Riggs "Santo Domingo Corn Dance"

Wings of thunder at the sun - Lynn Riggs "Santo Domingo Corn Dance"

How the moon is one with the snow - Lynn Riggs "Shadow on Snow"

Cracking the black river glass - Lynn Riggs "Shadow on Snow"

To feed unsinning at the iron dish - Lynn Riggs "Song of the Unholy Oracle"

That lone diner on the grubby root - Lynn Riggs "Song of the Unholy Oracle"

Who want no finer disasterous fruit - Lynn Riggs "Song of the Unholy Oracle"

A word the color of dawn - Lynn Riggs "Spring Morning--Santa Fe"

Lifting their velvet shadows - Lynn Riggs "Spring Morning--Santa Fe"

Form words for reluctant ears - Lynn Riggs "Those Who Speak in Whispers"

Those who scraped the granite hill - Lynn Riggs "Vandals"

Their path through rivers of mud - Lynn Riggs "The Wolves"


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