somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Thom Gunn

A dark sleep, or sleep that held one dream - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"

In this a huge contagious absence - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"

Defined but by the encroachments of its sway - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"

Stripped to indifference at the turns of time - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"

And welcomed zero as a paradigm - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"

Images burst with fire into the quiet sphere - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"

Presided ultimate in its abstract devastations - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"

An infinite finitude I see in those peculiar lovely variations - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"

Flares in the mind and leaves a smoky mark of dread - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"

Purposeless matter hovers in the dark - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"

Frost's long ache afflicting every mortal nation - Thom Gunn "The Antagonism"

Sunshine soluble in institution - Thom Gunn "The Antagonism"

The dream and dreamer warmed in fusion - Thom Gunn "The Antagonism"

Long stems of contrary assertion - Thom Gunn "The Antagonism"

Strengthened by the ache of winter - Thom Gunn "The Antagonism"

Syllables slurred to a fine complaint - Thom Gunn "Autumn Chapter in a Novel"

Which in their time held off the natural heat - Thom Gunn "Autumn Chapter in a Novel"

Sweatless as watercolour under glass - Thom Gunn "Autumn Chapter in a Novel"

Hesitates in the tender trap of doubt - Thom Gunn "Autumn Chapter in a Novel"

Resume the motions of their discontent - Thom Gunn "Autumn Chapter in a Novel"

Of energy that defeats the brokenness of towns - Thom Gunn "Black Jackets"

As a delaying habit of the mind - Thom Gunn "Black Jackets"

Sudden and anonymous hints of light - Thom Gunn "Black Jackets"

Pale antlers barely stirring as he hunts - Thom Gunn "Considering the Snail"

The slow passion to that deliberate progress - Thom Gunn "Considering the Snail"

A separate place between the thought and felt - Thom Gunn "The Corridor"

The inhabitant of someone else's world - Thom Gunn "The Corridor"

To ports in which past purposes unravelled - Thom Gunn "Duncan"

The energy that rose from their confusion - Thom Gunn "Duncan"

Themselves the margins of unchanging night - Thom Gunn "Duncan"

Belonging to the common ground above - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"

Each love defines its proper obstacles - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"

And have no faces for their frowns to fold - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"

Romeo's passion rose to fire from one thin spark - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"

Without a chance to blaze upon the unities of a paper scene - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"

A concave wall down-ribbed with shine - Thom Gunn "From the Wave"

Swim out to wait until the right waves gather - Thom Gunn "From the Wave"

I play your furies back to me at night - Thom Gunn "High Fidelity"

The tuneless circles that succeed a voice - Thom Gunn "High Fidelity"

Had deleted all of intervening time and place - Thom Gunn "The Hug"

Balances a mere pinpoint of consciousness - Thom Gunn "Human Condition"

No fog makes more or less the neighbouring disorder - Thom Gunn "Human Condition"

Walking through hypothesis, an individual - Thom Gunn "Human Condition"

Though the total riches could not fail - Thom Gunn "In the Tank"

Still they contained the silence of a jail - Thom Gunn "In the Tank"

To study equanimity among high trees alone - Thom Gunn "In Trust"

What we hold in trust we do hold, even apart - Thom Gunn "In Trust"

The small but clustering duties of the sick - Thom Gunn "Lament"

Distanced you from the habits of your health - Thom Gunn "Lament"

Treating each symptom as a mere mishap - Thom Gunn "Lament"

Before immediately slipping into the nightmare once again - Thom Gunn "Lament"

Martyrdom in the far Canada of a hospital room - Thom Gunn "Lament"

A gust of morphine hid you - Thom Gunn "Lament"

Explored this emptying intermediate state - Thom Gunn "Lament"

Detail to furnish this bare ledge toured by the gale - Thom Gunn "Lament"

Improvised upon your own delight - Thom Gunn "Lament"

Below a molten field of stars five years ago - Thom Gunn "Lament"

Too warm, too close, and not enough like pain - Thom Gunn "Lament"

A happier condemnation than I deserved - Thom Gunn "Legal Reform"

Exercise painful and lonely in the walks of death - Thom Gunn "Legal Reform"

I must get back inside the cage of breath - Thom Gunn "Legal Reform"

Absence twitches on the loosened rope - Thom Gunn "Legal Reform"

Who may not help himself and may not choose - Thom Gunn "Lines for a Book"

Who prospered through dreams of heat - Thom Gunn "The Man with Night Sweats"

My flesh was its own shield - Thom Gunn "The Man with Night Sweats"

Adored the risk made robust - Thom Gunn "The Man with Night Sweats"

A world of wonders in each challenge to the skin - Thom Gunn "The Man with Night Sweats"

As if hands were enough to hold an avalanche off - Thom Gunn "The Man with Night Sweats"

To me the bird is only meat for augury - Thom Gunn "Merlin in the Cave: He Speculates without a Book"

Knowing possession means the risk of loss - Thom Gunn "Merlin in the Cave: He Speculates without a Book"

Ripeness that rests an hour in the fruit - Thom Gunn "Merlin in the Cave: He Speculates without a Book"

The point where there remain no knacks or habits - Thom Gunn "Merlin in the Cave: He Speculates without a Book"

Unhampered by remembered syllables - Thom Gunn "Merlin in the Cave: He Speculates without a Book"

And nothing ends it but a storm or night - Thom Gunn "Merlin in the Cave: He Speculates without a Book"

Between the sky and the hot crust of hell - Thom Gunn "A Plan of Self Subjection"

Magic circles are a useful spell against contentment - Thom Gunn "A Plan of Self Subjection"

I end my circle where I had begun - Thom Gunn "A Plan of Self Subjection"

According to the hints that hopes give out - Thom Gunn "A Plan of Self Subjection"

From the sun and that hot hell beneath - Thom Gunn "A Plan of Self Subjection"

My circle's end is where I have begun - Thom Gunn "A Plan of Self Subjection"

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