Potential Titles: Linda Pastan

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The perilous sound of hail on a tin roof - Linda Pastan "Ah, Friend"

Signposts leading to other words - Linda Pastan "All Nights" [Yes, 'words' is right.]

A place of unimagined reds and golds - Linda Pastan "All Nights"

All these years from home - Linda Pastan "All Nights"

On the stairwell of bones - Linda Pastan "Anatomy"

The moon goes on relentless - Linda Pastan "Ash"

In cold complicity the stars comply - Linda Pastan "Ash"

To shoes filled with tears - Linda Pastan "At the Edge"

The amber color of comfort - Linda Pastan "At the Edge"

Let loose by the blackbirds - Linda Pastan "The Blackbirds"

Like individual notes gone mad - Linda Pastan "The Blackbirds"

Before a single leaf has changed - Linda Pastan "The Blackbirds"

The snow has forgotten how to stop - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"

A silk windsock of snow blowing - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"

Shaping itself to the wish of any object - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"

Splitting the hive of winter - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"

The whole alphabet of silence - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"

Toll for the losses still ahead - Linda Pastan "Bronze Bells of Autumn"

Worth only its own weight - Linda Pastan "The Burglary"

Our table set only with memories - Linda Pastan "The Burglary"

Early soldiers of the season - Linda Pastan "Cassandra"

As energy and matter bow and switch places - Linda Pastan "The Conservation of Matter"

The understudy to her own life - Linda Pastan "Dido and Aeneas: After Purcell"

Into the scrolled music of air - Linda Pastan "Dido and Aeneas: After Purcell"

The green jungle of our sleep - Linda Paston "Domestic Animals"

Made of flint and backbone - Linda Pastan "Elizabethan"

Sipped despite the possibility of poison - Linda Pastan "Elizabethan"

Ruler of roiling seas - Linda Pastan "Elizabethan"

Like planets to her sun - Linda Pastan "Elizabethan"

Like constellations cut loose - Linda Pastan "Fireflies"

Still hungry for the scent of laurel - Linda Pastan "Firing the Muse"

The same sentinel trees - Linda Pastan "Ghosts"

Like secret tidal pools doomed by salt - Linda Pastan "The Grandfathers"

A moment of lilac or dogwood - Linda Pastan "The Happiest Day"

Working upward across bone - Linda Pastan "I Am Learning to Abandon the World: for M"

Morning comes with small reprieves - Linda Pastan "I Am Learning to Abandon the World: for M"

Clothed in the rags of imagination - Linda Pastan "In an Unaddressed Envelope"

All the patience of the long invisible - Linda Pastan "In an Unaddressed Envelope"

Praise what is left - Linda Pastan "In the Forest"

Where my illusions grow - Linda Pastan "In the Walled Garden"

The fading half life of ambition - Linda Pastan "In the Walled Garden"

Under the shadow of their umbrellas - Linda Pastan "It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank"

In the skeleton of a kitchen - Linda Pastan "It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank"

Find the pure center of light - Linda Pastan "It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank"

Within the dark circle of his demons - Linda Pastan "It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank"

Ghosts of pictures never painted - Linda Pastan "Late in October"

Sing the song of its own execution - Linda Pastan "Late September Smile"

Reduced his past to cinders - Linda Pastan "Life and Death on Masterpiece"

Their shrouds of brilliant sun - Linda Pastan "Life and Death on Masterpiece"

And the choirs of flowers - Linda Pastan "Life and Death on Masterpiece"

Riding music out of sight - Linda Pastan "Listening to Bob Dylan, 2005"

In its own winding purgatory - Linda Pastan "Marking Time"

Blood brother to silence - Linda Pastan "The moon"

But darkness is contagious - Linda Pastan "The moon"

Into the gravity of my life - Linda Pastan "The New Dog"

The creaking door to freedom - Linda Pastan "Old Joke"

To fool us into sacrifice - Linda Pastan "On Seeing an Old Photograph"

Into stacks of inflammable gold - Linda Pastan "The Poets"

These brittle bones, this unwieldy heart - Linda Pastan "Purple"

Flowers with knife-sharp petals - Linda Pastan "Renunciation"

The bright arrows of beauty - Linda Pastan "Renunciation"

Deserter from the great autumn army - Linda Pastan "Repetitions: After Van Gogh: 1. Yellow"

To arrive at death quite safe - Linda Pastan "River Pig"

The vanity of the seasons - Linda Pastan "The Serpent to Eve"

The perfumed luxuries of summer - Linda Pastan "The Serpent to Eve"

The sun fixes each shadow - Linda Pastan "The Still Point"

Traces of the past showing through - Linda Pastan "Thanksgiving Ghost"

Whisper in the ears of Galileo - Linda Pastan "Time Travel"

For an eternity of traveling light - Linda Pastan "Traveling Light"

Honor the gods of the vertical - Linda Pastan "Vertical"

Dark forms yearning upward - Linda Pastan "Vertical"


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