A poem titled for these objects likely borrowed from a Kóstas Ouránis line about an “autumn afternoon,” according to a Donald Justice note in his “Variations on a Text by” that poem’s author. A Jean de Ruysbroeck epigraph prefaces a prose poem titled for an object of this kind, which opens, “the bad light is near and nothing is real.” The speaker of a poem titled for these objects is beaten with a club and rope while observed by “Thursday days” and “humerus bones.” A medieval practice involving one of these objects titles an (*) Alejandra Pizarnik collection. Black and white examples of these objects title a César Vallejo poem that predicts “I will die in Paris with a rainstorm.” A poem titled for an object of this kind describes a river that “advances and retreats, goes roundabout, / arriving forever.” For 10 points, an Octavio Paz poem is titled for the “Sun” variety of what object? ■END■
ANSWER: stones [or piedras; accept Extracting the Stone of Madness or Extracción de la piedra de locura; accept “Black Stone on a White Stone” or “Black Stone Lying on a White Stone” or “Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca”; accept “Sunstone” or “Piedra del sol”]
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