Potential Titles: Vijay Seshadri

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Through the acres of shattered glass in the streets - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"

The halfway houses where I met my kind dreaming - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"

To make your secret anguish your secret weapon - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"

He affrights civilizations with his cry - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"

At his approach the mountains retreat - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"

A great wind crashes the garden party - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"

The penciled-in figure on the painted-over mural of time - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"

Below his aching sunrise, his moody, disappointed sunset - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"

Went down into the world to exercise his virtue - Vijay Seshadri "Enlightenment"

To exercise his virtue - Vijay Seshadri "Enlightenment"

The violence done to the mind by the weaponized word - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"

Hit at an aggregate speed of forty miles an hour - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"

The self's delicate apparatus crumpled - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"

The self's delicate apparatus crumpled in the wide pan of the brain - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"

To fix the image cradled inside the image of itself - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"

The compassion that those who see themselves in agony feel - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"

Our thinking's frozen violence - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"

Ready to recapitulate our thinking's frozen violence - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"

Where he will paint us in silent pastels - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"

On whose back the kingdom is carried - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"

The atmosphere charged with possibility - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"

To rest in the shade of the metal raintrees - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"

Until he walks out of the sea and into the mountains - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"

Burns on the windward slopes and freezes in the valleys - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"

Those he loved have been carried down the river of fire - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"

And never abandoned him to his loneliness - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"

Radioactive to the end of time - Vijay Seshadri "Memoir"

Scorched by the firestorms of shame - Vijay Seshadri "Memoir"

Sick of being slaughtered in my life's mountain passes - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"

Covering my own retreat - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"
The rear guard of my own brutal defeat - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"

Dysentery and frostbite and snipers - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"

Blizzards whipping the famished fires - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"

Bitter but herbal and medicinal truths - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"

Float the secrets on the waters - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"

Scatter those truthes to the sea breezes - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"

Tide pools that cradle the ribbed limpet and the rockbound star - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"

We hold it against you that you survived - Vijay Seshadri "Survivor"

Listed with the defeated and the drowned - Vijay Seshadri "Survivor"

With your strength almost intact and all your good luck - Vijay Seshadri "Survivor"

The inside is exactly the same as the outside - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"

Bringing in the sheep and waving away the goats - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"

There is a border, but it is not fixed - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"

Rises and plunges into the unimaginable seventh dimension - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"

Before erupting in a field of Dakota corn - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"

And obviously undocumented to the bone - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"

The retrospective, maskless rage of inception - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"


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