somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Philip Levine

The dark road toward their silence - Philip Levine "After the War"

By men becoming myths - Philip Levine "And That Night Clifford Died"

One step closer to the edge of truth - Philip Levine "Another Song"

A high thin note trilling the frozen air - Philip Levine "Another Song"

A living candle in the hand of earth - Philip Levine "Bitterness"

To breathe the frozen sky - Philip Levine "Blood"

A tight nest of broken eggs - Philip Levine "Blood"

Hears the humming of rocks at great height - Philip Levine "Breath"

The long steady drone of granite holding - Philip Levine "Breath"

The strumming of obsidian to itself - Philip Levine "Breath"

The glacier's final push resounding still - Philip Levine "Breath"

And the dark came out of my eyes flooding everything - Philip Levine "Breath"

Scared by the gasping of a wild one - Philip Levine "Breath"

Scared by my own breath - Philip Levine "Breath"

Gleamed with the warm light of an absent star - Philip Levine "Breath"

In this high clear room of the world - Philip Levine "Breath"

Held locked in the veins till the last fire - Philip Levine "Breath"

Calm us then under a gold sky - Philip Levine "Breath"

Still retain their purity of functional design - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"

Their usefulness became legend - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"

To enter the wilderness of warehouses - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"

Relayed the new gospels across mountains - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"

In the sudden aftermath I inhaled a sadness - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"

With their secret ponds and streams unknown - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"

The whole weight of the rain - Philip Levine "Clouds Above the Sea"

In dust rising - Philip Levine "Clouds Above the Sea"

The absence of sky - Philip Levine "Clouds Above the Sea"

As they say in the language of that place - Philip Levine "Coming Close"

Reborn on my breath - Philip Levine "The Communist Party"

Strangers of good will - Philip Levine "The Communist Party"

On pine planks over the umber mud - Philip Levine "Drum"

Silver shavings whitened with milky oil - Philip Levine "Drum"

A Carthaginian outpost sent to guard the waters - Philip Levine "Drum"

The haze of stars striking armor - Philip Levine "Drum"

Seven hills of scraped earth topped with crab grass - Philip Levine "Drum"

Not these shards of ash - Philip Levine "During the War"

The moon no one sings to - Philip Levine "The Evening Turned Its Back Upon Her Voice"

And iron striking back - Philip Levine "Flowering Midnight"

But far from childhood - Philip Levine "Flowering Midnight"

Gray starlings on the winter lawn - Philip Levine "For the Country: The Dream"

Dark capped juncos hidden in dense foliage - Philip Levine "For the Country: The Garden"

The long shadows settle down to rest - Philip Levine "For the Country: The Garden"

Speaking of the great theater of conquest - Philip Levine "For the Country: The President"

Of advancing beyond the simple miracles - Philip Levine "For the Country: The President"

The small ventures of birds and beasts - Philip Levine "For the Country: The President"

Hidden in the shadows of the cottonwoods - Philip Levine "Gospel"

Only a faint path strewn with lupine - Philip Levine "Gospel"

The earth, still cold, still silent, still ungiving - Philip Levine "Gospel"

Greets me with last year's dead thistles - Philip Levine "Gospel"

The curling remains of spider's cloth - Philip Levine "Gospel"

The traffic light stuck on yellow - Philip Levine "Homecoming"

Winds Off the Moon - Philip Levine "In a Light Time"

Blindest in Sunlight - Philip Levine "In a Light Time"

Bowed by rust - Philip Levine "It Was Autumn"

The seven rivers that surround the heart - Philip Levine "Joe Gould's Pen"

Gave back the last hard breath - Philip Levine "Joe Gould's Pen"

Toward a horizon of pure blood - Philip Levine "Library Days"

Complicate the pain - Philip Levine “Mad Day in March”

Stolen dime-store moments - Philip Levine "Magic"

A verdict against creation - Philip Levine "Magic"

Slow fish speaking the language of silence - Philip Levine "Making It Work"

The name of the angel who guards my sleep - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

Reach for the next outcropping of rock - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

The thistle sheds its royal robes - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

Quivers awake in the hot winds off the sun - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

Goes ahead burning the little candle of his breath - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

Your laughter thrown in the wind's face - Philip Levine "My Fathers, The Baltic"

Money and all it never bought - Philip Levine "My Fathers, The Baltic"

For all the sea taught you - Philip Levine "My Fathers, The Baltic"

Did the stars keep their appointments - Philip Levine "On 52nd Street"

Expecting to enter fiction - Philip Levine "Once"

The mountains have no word for ocean - Philip Levine "Our Valley"

Or how light changed nothing - Philip Levine "Photography 2"

Must invent someone on the other end of eternity - Philip Levine "Picture Postcard from the Other World"

With no more fuss than the moon makes - Philip Levine "Picture Postcard from the Other World"

The cloud that formed above the rivers of our blood - Philip Levine "Picture Postcard from the Other World"

Except the stubbornness of things - Philip Levine "The Return"

The fine print of our eyes - Philip Levine "Salt and Oil"

In the locked archives of the clock - Philip Levine "Salt and Oil"

Limitless and changing everything - Philip Levine "The Sea We Read About"

No darkness we can say was his - Philip Levine "The Search for Lorca's Shadow"

The old voyage toward morning - Philip Levine "The Secret"

The earth asks nothing - Philip Levine "The Secret"

The light overflowing with smoke - Philip Levine "Smoke"

Understood the moon - Philip Levine "Smoke"

There has to be more than dust - Philip Levine "A Story"

An alert cat leaving nothing to chance - Philip Levine "A Theory of Prosody"

A river of stars overflowing their bowl - Philip Levine "These Streets"

The comfort things could bring - Philip Levine "These Words"

The clear ink of its meaning - Philip Levine "These Words"

Smelling the exhaustion on his own breath - Philip Levine "The Two"

The weather has not decided if this is spring - Philip Levine "The Two"

Spiced with things she cannot believe - Philip Levine "The Two"

Why I never returned to keep them in my life - Philip Levine "The Two"

The patience to endure these truths and confessions - Philip Levine "The Two"

All the birds in hiding - Philip Levine "Unholy Saturday"

Before the dark whispers the last word - Philip Levine "Unholy Saturday"

The breathy, unknowable voice of silence - Philip Levine "The Unknowable"

Their last words reach us in the language of light - Philip Levine "Waking in March"

Wind bearing the voices of the world - Philip Levine "Waking in March"

Turn it into fire or the sound of fire - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

As the whole world holds its breath - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

They can drain the stars of light - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Gathering up the remnants of this year's garden - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Beds that couldn't hold our ordinary serviceable dreams - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Follow their trail of burnished arrows - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

The mad swirl of leaves and newspapers - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Blowing its black breath in the face of creation - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

A few stars come out to share the witness - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

The heart of ice is fire waiting - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

His fence that could hold back no one - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

With so much stubborn weight of our going - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Go on two legs down the stairs and out - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Ermined floors and tangled seas of silk sheets - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Through adobe walls and secret gardens - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Burning crystals settling on the evening ocean - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

The archaic power of his figs - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Bowed to his wounded tomatoes - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

To rinse off the pain of nightmare - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

To receive the black gifts of a mountain road - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Reaching into unforeseen sweetness - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Roosting in the dark branches of the Joshua tree - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

In a high room between two rivers - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Neither on a cloud of soot nor a roof of stone - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Urging the past out of its pockets of silence - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Long banished into silence and no time - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Leaving nothing to tell me who they are - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Doubles and smears the night across the wide world - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

As they gathered the long day's remnants - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Softened to the usual shades of rain, night, sleep - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Took them through seven small seas to a great ocean - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

A great ocean tasting of salt and our lives - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

The sparrow who picks about the gravel - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Invites me in with a twist of his head - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Hung motionless above the changing winds - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

The absence of another voice - Philip Levine "Yakov"

With black wine and black bread - Philip Levine "Yakov"

Brought him the music of silence - Philip Levine "Yakov"

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