Potential Titles: Stanley Kunitz

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Wake to hear the engines of the night thrumming - Stanley Kunitz "The Abduction"

Borne aloft in triumph through the green - Stanley Kunitz "The Abduction"

Searchlights controlled by unseen hands - Stanley Kunitz "The Abduction"

Bleached faces peering in with coals for eyes - Stanley Kunitz "The Abduction"

The shapes of things are shifting in the wind - Stanley Kunitz "The Abduction"

Beyond the rapture and the dread - Stanley Kunitz "The Abduction"

I have walked through many lives - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

Though some principle of being abides - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

The milestones dwindling toward the horizon - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

Slow fires trailing from the abandoned camp-sites - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

Over which scavenger angels wheel on heavy wings - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

Made myself a tribe out of my true affections - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses? - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

In a rising wind the manic dust of my friends - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

Every stone on the road precious - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

When the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

Though I lack the art to decipher it - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

The next chapter in my book of transformations - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

I am not done with my changes - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

Nobody in the widow's household ever celebrated anniversaries - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"

My birthday went up in smoke in a fire at City Hall - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"

I'd have no documentary proof that I exist - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"

To bully me into these festive occasions - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"

Time for me to practice growing old - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"

Whatever you choose to claim of me is always yours - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"

Nothing is truly mine except my name - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"

I only borrowed this dust - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"

Locked his name in her deepest cabinet - Stanley Kunitz "The Portrait"

Hunting for perfect stones rolled out of glacial time - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

Among the sodden seethe of leaves - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

Around the bend that tried to loop me home - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

Across a nettled field riddled with rabbit-life - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

Where the bees sank sugar-wells in the trunks of maples - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

Remembered a door in the long teeth of the woods - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

Wading through jewelweed strangled by angel's hair - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

Once I owned the key to an umbrageous trail - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

Where flickering presences gave me right of passage - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

Where the pale sun bobbed in the sump of the granite - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

Past copperhead ledge, where the ferns gave foothold - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

The stones in my pocket changing to oracles - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

The inexhaustible oat, tyrant and target - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

Jehovah of acorns, watchtower of the thunders - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

That locked King Philip's War in its annulated core - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"


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