somethingdarker | Sep. 1st, 2011

Sep. 1st, 2011

Distances that escape through the body - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Awkward fingers stammering in an attempt to name - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Delivers an eloquent speech on the void - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Sustains themself on empty speech - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

That falls on the ruins or on the void - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

A bet that in the void vanishes - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Rebuilds themself out of distances - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

The fallen stones give shape to a new structure - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Someone names themself in the loss - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Be sufficient to name ourselves otherwise - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

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a southern philter with a touch of botulism - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Abstrack Africana"

halfway house for broken history - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Abstrack Africana"

his inner stars all spilling out - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

to all the gods in waiting - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

an enclave for cosmic waves - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

our small volley of prayers & dreams - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

blue jays spun down from outer space - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

a hard rain cancelled this existential parade - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

the grateful host for our sorrows and our joys - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

my dark surrealism written in slang - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

commanding dark algebraic emblems to stand - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

preserves the tar from a borealis - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

every hieroglyph hidden deep - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

a tonsil in the mouth of space and time - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

the flora of the open palm closing - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

an array of shadows in my lungs - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

from some inner event horizon - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

where dawn is denied a body - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

a bricolage of place & memory - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Blueprint For An African American Space Station"

my hubris a hybrid with debris - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Blueprint For An African American Space Station"

our caravan of many shadows - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "A Blues For Eunice Waymon"

our pillow talk of acceptance & cigarette ash - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "A Blues For Eunice Waymon"

toiling at the feet of empire - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"

my odalisque in apron and sackcloth - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"

a satchel of laments for a basket of hibiscus - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"

behind our walls of thatch and moss and tin - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"

we two usurp a throne - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"

Dashed through all the flames to kill the witch - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

Gifted keepsakes by their kings - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

Riding comets bareback through cosmic alleys - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

A commodifying media and its monopolizing imagination - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

Weaponized into political meaning - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

My history defying assumptions of gravity - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

My lungs at maximum capacity of sadness - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

beat back whatever hordes come haunting - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

your mission statement was always insufficient - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

by your design it's always autumn - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

even in the dead of space, a drumming - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

a soothsayer with sandpaper hands - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

two tragic martyrs on coffee break - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

giving parables in answer to every mathematical equation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

barter in the currencies of bravado and spotlight - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

the exchange in theories of introspection - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

every conversation meant as embrace - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

to walk an island of seashells - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

an island of seashells within the rings of Saturn - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

not enough prime numbers; and not enough time travel - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Ogechi Hula-Hoops The Rings Of Saturns"

her clothes hamper full of Euclidean geometry - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Ogechi Hula-Hoops The Rings Of Saturns"

a full moon in diaspora - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Rocket No. 9 To Venus"

leave room for levitation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

still the tint of video game to your voice - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

although your beliefs all chew tin - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

at the precipice between gardenias blue and begonias black - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

blowing kisses to clouds of heather - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

a crevice that leaks god and reeks magic - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

porcelain is the purgatory of most men - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

buried beneath an often borrowed freedom - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

the residue of treasured memory - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

a love stripping itself bare - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

a sun you thought existed much closer - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

amoebas in your motherboards - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Spaceshp For Sale"

until our clays together tangle - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

the heat of mythologies at melt - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

before sin might reek of permanence - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

they once offered asylum to the Sun - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

you scrape for life in a vacuum - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

humanity is the eyelid of the sun - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

while its secrets shape the court - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

black neon wrapped in sky blue linen - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"

the universe in diasphoric wailing - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"

ruining our recipe for reanimation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"

the evisceration of slang on altars made unkind - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

the only mythology that remains - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

how else to explain this oscillating darkness - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

that hauled Kilimanjaro into Kentucky - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

and neither of us can break tradition - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

so I bequeath to earth my dying gasp - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

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Full of squabbling stars - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"

Decided to snare and imprison the sun - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"

Shoving her body along the path of a dream - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"

That flowed with her beyond its shores - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"

An accident with a volcano, an earthquake - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"

The restless stars growing within her - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"

Photos from yesterday's love affair - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"

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As influenced by gelignite and bombs - H.H.U., Northhamptonshire Regt. "To My Bath" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

Holding thorns in one hand - U Tak "2270" (transl. not credited but assumed, due to poet's dates, not to be the poet)

A future astonished heart - Julia Uceda "2976"

Lift your dark eyes dreaming - Una Urquhart "An Old Tale of Three"

The abrupt language of her going - Pamela Uschuk "Green Flame"

Sky would quick forget - Pamela Uschuk "Green Flame"

Ignorant of sun and moon - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"

The continents race headlong - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"

Drifting lands close on ancient seas - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"

The doomed trilobites neglect to make out their wills - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"

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With dragging Sunday feet - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Forget-Me-Nots"

As one remembers in a fairy tale - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Forget-Me-Nots"

Hardly acknowledged our passing - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Forget-Me-Nots"

Lifted from a dream of the past - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Forget-Me-Nots"

In the gold of my memory - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Forget-Me-Nots"

Frail bridges to infinity - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Old Man"

Go into the places of trade - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Possession"

Go into the smiling country - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Possession"

In the visible flame of my love - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Possession"

In your shining and terrible garment - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Possession"

Have always hated the rain - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Rain"

Filled with a blurred glory - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Rain"

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The street with its pitiless eyes - Louis Untermeyer "Any City"

The night with its pitiless stars - Louis Untermeyer "Any City"

Wild roses followed us - Louis Untermeyer "At Kennebunkport"

Dearer than all delight - Louis Untermeyer "At Kennebunkport"

And all the bitter banners furled - Louis Untermeyer "At Kennebunkport"

Not one with the conquering year - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"

The laugh of the strong - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"

To the shrine of your heart - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"

Has left my braggart blood - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"

Lost in a forest of fire - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"

The jubilant spirits increase - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"

Fling us a handful of stars - Louis Untermeyer "Caliban in the Coal Mines"

The quiet and courageous night - Louis Untermeyer "Challenge"

The scornful and untroubled skies - Louis Untermeyer "Challenge"

The cold complacency of earth - Louis Untermeyer "Challenge"

Has found its natural frame - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"

From those enkindled eyes - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"

The shadows of her flashing feet - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"

As the surge of radiance grows - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"

That flesh has danced with flame - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"

Sphinxes of silence, wraiths of mystery - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

Whispered spells and shameful lore - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

Made of rose and fire and mist - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

Unknown passion of each flaming star - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

Exotic passions and uncanny bliss - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

Your ballad's grief, your lyric's fire - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

The mystic radiance of your dreams - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

Lift your perfumed thoughts aloft - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

Do not long for tortured harmonies - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

Compelled in our separate orbits - Louis Untermeyer "The Flaming Circle"

The weary years forever - Louis Untermeyer "God's Youth"

Heard the stars rush by - Louis Untermeyer "God's Youth"

The unexplored and endless skies - Louis Untermeyer "God's Youth"

Hurling strange suns - Louis Untermeyer "God's Youth"

Threatens the stars - Louis Untermeyer "God's Youth"

And all the troubling universe - Louis Untermeyer "God's Youth"

Shall not even yield to sleep - Louis Untermeyer "The Great Carousal"

Clasped by roots and rains - Louis Untermeyer "The Great Carousal"

Between the moss and the stone - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"

And clutch the crumbling walls - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"

Startled by the light - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"

Silence shrinks deeper in - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"

Dead roses lift their heads - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"

A broken lance against iron laws - Louis Untermeyer "He Goads Himself"

Enough lost causes to die for- Louis Untermeyer "He Goads Himself"

The rumor of blossoming boughs - Louis Untermeyer "Healed"

Are brave with the Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Healed"

A miracle common and wild - Louis Untermeyer "Healed"

In all the skies or under - Louis Untermeyer "The Heretic: Blasphemy"

Pity him his lonely heaven - Louis Untermeyer "The Heretic: Blasphemy"

Blossoms like the earliest tree - Louis Untermeyer "The Heretic: Mockery"

Worthy of the patient grass - Louis Untermeyer "How Much of Godhood"

Akin to dawn, the daisy and the sea - Louis Untermeyer "How Much of Godhood"

Like a city of moons - Louis Untermeyer "In a Cab"

Do not wonder or witness - Louis Untermeyer "In a Cab"

Only the desolate rain - Louis Untermeyer "In a Cab"

For a brave, red wave of sound - Louis Untermeyer "In a Strange City"

The driest dust must turn - Louis Untermeyer "In the Berkshire Hills"

Days that have no pity - Louis Untermeyer "In the Streets"

The darkness flung aside - Louis Untermeyer "In the Subway"

Past the cold and breathless dark - Louis Untermeyer "In the Subway"

With the fires of April - Louis Untermeyer "Interludes"

Thus the stately gods themselves - Louis Untermeyer "Isadora Duncan Dancing"

As the ringing scythe meets scythe - Louis Untermeyer "Isadora Duncan Dancing"

As the leaping heart meets heart - Louis Untermeyer "Isadora Duncan Dancing"

All the morning minded earth - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

A sharp and kindling mirth - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

And every weed grow proud - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

And all her rushing spirits - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

And burn the trembling orchard - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

To little worlds of flame - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

With abrupt and visionary eyes - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

Where the green Silence laughed - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

With all its million fires - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

Piercing the stubborn stones - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

Knee-deep in velvet peace - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

Agonies of iron and stone - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

A threatening, unconquerable sea - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

The angry face of the sky - Louis Untermeyer "Leaving the Harbor"

Lay on the shore of heaven - Louis Untermeyer "Leaving the Harbor"

Before the wind's majestic feet - Louis Untermeyer "Midnight--By the Open Window"

Roused to the jubilant fight - Louis Untermeyer "Midnight--By the Open Window"

The half-cracked shield of mockery - Louis Untermeyer "Monolog from a Mattress"

And snapped in my own fires - Louis Untermeyer "Monolog from a Mattress"

With the fragile armor of youth - Louis Untermeyer "On the Birth of a Child"

With the sword of protest - Louis Untermeyer "On the Birth of a Child"

Storming hours with their dark increase - Louis Untermeyer "Peace"

Ever insurgent let me be - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"

Compromise and things half-done - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"

More daring than devout - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"

With a buoyant doubt - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"

Keep me still unsatisfied - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"

Unconscious of the earth - Louis Untermeyer "Protests"

Glories gone but never dead - Louis Untermeyer "Protests"

All the sudden singing skies - Louis Untermeyer "Protests"

Like silence trembling - Louis Untermeyer "Revelation"

With glancing rhythms and rhymes - Louis Untermeyer "Revelation"

By the breath of of a bird - Louis Untermeyer "Revelation"

Melts in a sunset of fire - Louis Untermeyer "Revelation"

From their dull prison in the dust - Louis Untermeyer "Roast Leviathan"

Rise into choruses of singing gold - Louis Untermeyer "Roast Leviathan"

With centuries of snow - Louis Untermeyer "Roast Leviathan"

With the voice of a flower - Louis Untermeyer "Roast Leviathan"

Sing strife or rising moons - Louis Untermeyer "Songs and the Poet"

Grows sweet with peace - Louis Untermeyer "Songs and the Poet"

And whispers through your walls - Louis Untermeyer "Spring on Broadway"

Far too wild and wise - Louis Untermeyer "Spring on Broadway"

No place for Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Spring on Broadway"

Cynical, moon-scarred and old - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"

Every tree is a silent brother - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"

Clean winds on my brow - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"

Whispers of a thousand lures - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

All the swift persuasion of the Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

Surged from the stars and stones - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

The lavish miracles of earth - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

Well-known but half-forgotten - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

The brave persistence of the grass - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

The blind belief of ivy - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

The groping faith of every root - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

The passion of the universe - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

Pressed new courage in my heart - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

Like a conquering army through my blood - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

A thing too great for tears - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

Rode red hordes of anger - Louis Untermeyer "Sunday"

The comfortable heaven or your breast - Louis Untermeyer "Sunday Night"

The noble skies and the inviolate stars - Louis Untermeyer "Sunday Night"

Briefness of its reckless Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Thanks"

Such a proud and crashing wave - Louis Untermeyer "Thanks"

Before the wind of joy - Louis Untermeyer "Thanks"

Weary of undesired joys - Louis Untermeyer "Tribute"

Love, trampling and invincible - Louis Untermeyer "Tribute"

Every muffled drum and grieving bugle - Louis Untermeyer "Two Funerals"

All the old and heartless gods - Louis Untermeyer "Two Funerals"

God's curse is on the thief - Louis Untermeyer "A Voice from the Sweat-Shops"

A thousand evil poisons - Louis Untermeyer "A Voice from the Sweat-Shops"

With anxious heart and wondering ear - Louis Untermeyer "Voices"

Until the world was drowned - Louis Untermeyer "Voices"

And even the night is wounded - Louis Untermeyer "Waters of Babylon"

Has neither knowledge nor pity - Louis Untermeyer "Waters of Babylon"

Brimming with silence and the stars - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"

Seen without its scars - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"

The draught that Beauty brews - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"

This stirrup-cup of stars - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"

From a huge and solid cloud - Louis Untermeyer "The Young Mystic"

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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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What appears to be deeply rooted - Leah Umansky "Come, Pioneer"

What forest is there to run to - Leah Umansky "Come, Pioneer"

To spark the heat of this body - Leah Umansky "Come, Pioneer"

Tired of shepherding this heart - Leah Umansky "Come, Pioneer"

Before I bury it all under - Leah Umansky "Come, Pioneer"

A waiting for the edge to fall - Leah Umansky "Desire [even in the time of the tyrant]"

Longing for the pierce of stars - Leah Umansky "Desire [even in the time of the tyrant]"

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Complete without a blooming rose - Irvin W. Underhill "Solitude"

Of moon-light bereft - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"

Wondrous fountains of joy and youth - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"

I led to the altar of truth - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"

Your manners are those of the fawn - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"

In secret for loving the spring - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"

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