June 2016 themes

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A mixed bag as usual, plundering more of my usual favorites, ha ha

1 - Somewhere in the desert there's a forest
2 - but you can hope for anything
3 - the sea is rising…and the world is sand
4 - I'll wait, so show me why you're strong
5 - make and mend
6 - when I think of winter
7 - How I lived a childhood in the snow
8 - what fish feel, what birds feel
9 - invisible guests come in and out at will
10 - by land or water, girl, get outta town
11 - and then I fell asleep in a strange field
12 - a drowsy damsel in a see-through saffron gown
13 - What could I have said to raise you from the dead?
14 - I, a single human being
15 - a man who swallowed a dream
16 - right on time you get closer and closer
17 - two souls on one holy path
18 - we won't grow old together
19 - all sunflowers
20 - in the age of unfolding
21 - You have fixed my Life- however short.
22 - Here's where gentlemen avert their eyes
23 - the enemy sketched out in promise and pen
24 - brother lead and sister steel
25 - all around her, the world is burning
26 - bury the dead where they're found
27 - the dark level of not knowing
28 - The hunter dresses like his prey. They fall in love.
29 - a new folklore of terror
30 - I recognized my world for a kingdom of death.



sources--
1 - Sufjan Stevens, "
2 - (from a fanfic!) Mithrigil & puella_nerdii, "Scylla and Charybdis," chapter 5
3 - Wilfred Owen, "To-"
4 - James Blake, "Retrograde"
6 - Tori Amos, "Winter"
7 - The Decemberists, "January Hymn"
8 - Basho
9 - Czeslaw Milosz, "Ars Poetica"
10 - Suzanne Cummis, "How I Didn't Get Myself to a Nunnery" in The New Yorker
11 - asofterworld, #290
12 - reviewer in The New Yorker, re: Sir Frederick Leighton's "Flaming June"
13 - Sufjan Stevens, "Fourth of July"
14 - Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
15 - Chris O'Leary, from a post on Pushing Ahead of the Dame
16 - Tori Amos, "Caught a Lite Sneeze"
21 - Wilfred Owen in a letter to Siegfried Sassoon
22 - Andrew Bird, "Roma Fade"
23 - (also from a fanfic!) "Deadman's Float" by Luc Court
24 - Siegfried Sassoon, "The Kiss"
26 - Sufjan Stevens, "The Only Thing"
27 - Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon
28 - Malcolm Gladwell, "Mirror Stage" in The New Yorker
29 - Sean Mactire, Malicious Intent
30 - Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth