Potential Titles: Ada Limon

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Try to remember the angles of devotion - Ada Limon "The Angles Made at the Factory"

After the machines stopped churning the air - Ada Limon "The Angles Made at the Factory"

Her angles learned to grow some kind of sharpness - Ada Limon "The Angles Made at the Factory"

Under clouds of miscalculation - Ada Limon "The Barer the Bones"

Our sudden lack of atmosphere - Ada Limon "The Barer the Bones"

Mercy for this moment between fences - Ada Limon "Big Star"

The blue jay on the electric wires - Ada Limon "The Bird Knows He Is Going to Die and Wishes Not To"

From his roost of rush and chord - Ada Limon "The Bird Knows He Is Going to Die and Wishes Not To"

Wearing her changeable season - Ada Limon "The Bird Knows He Is Going to Die and Wishes Not To"

Shedding light like feathers - Ada Limon "The Bird Knows He Is Going to Die and Wishes Not To"

All the windowsills you've ever known - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

Windows open to let the fog roll - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

The clatter of sun in a room - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

Depends on the impending storm - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

A satchel of notes drawn out of the tub - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

A crow in the clock - Ada Limon "The Commute"

Your own bones will hold you up - Ada Limon "The Commute"

Two halves of the same strange atmosphere - Ada Limon "The Crossing"

A bold blundering sky of fresh water - Ada Limon "The Crossing"

The way I feel about persimmons - Ada Limon "Crush"

The seed that comes up outside the garden - Ada Limon "The Echo Sounder"

An echo chamber in her chest - Ada Limon "The Echo Sounder"

Will endow the words with nonsense - Ada Limon "The Echo Sounder"

Come quick to the breaking - Ada Limon "Evolution"

And all my horoscope said today - Ada Limon "Farmers' Almanac"

The best day to eat a meal of sincerity - Ada Limon "Farmers' Almanac"

Leaving most of the world unturned - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

The hours when I am not who I am - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

This packets of seeds with no soil to live in - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Offerings in the obedient now - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Built of stencils and explosive devices - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

The ghostly cofferdam of my own mind - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

My love was a jester on the rails - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Engines and navigating lights of redemption - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Into an actual nest of suspended song - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Held tight with our own explosives - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Standing on the watery extension of time - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Tenderness troubles each of us differently - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Offering ourselves to the day's ordinary rituals - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

My hummingbird landing in a stranger's palm - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Feathers for a long study of flight - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Still dazzled in the glittered air - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Drinking gin at noon - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Focus on the bright noise of traffic - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Most stories are at least half true - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Carving out this pocket of air - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

All these sharks swimming in the bathtub - Ada Limon "Fin"

Barracuda in the blood - Ada Limon "Fin"

The coral-gossip of these good bones - Ada Limon "Fin"

Flickering letters in the fist - Ada Limon "Fin"

No pocket to put you in - Ada Limon "Fin"

We solved the problem of the wind - Ada Limon "First Lunch with Relative Stranger Mister You"

Identity being an important instrument - Ada Limon "First Lunch with Relative Stranger Mister You"

What to do with the problem of the orange - Ada Limon "First Lunch with Relative Stranger Mister You"

Your outlawed thoughts in your hands - Ada Limon "The Fronntier of Never Leaving"

From the junkyard of Forever Worried - Ada Limon "The Fronntier of Never Leaving"

Why am I not allowed delight? - Ada Limon "Give Me This"

The tongue taste of natural color - Ada Limon "Gratitude in Spite of Oneself"

This collection of authentic apparitions - Ada Limon "Gratitude in Spite of Oneself"

Having lost a bet about a minor thing - Ada Limon "The Great Erector of Invisible Pets"

A strange intimacy of pavement and heat - Ada Limon "The Great Erector of Invisible Pets"

Our thrones of maps and mirrors - Ada Limon "High Water"

Bruised by the stone glare of the limelight - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"

Buoyed by your own coalition with the air - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"

Leave your arms loose in the hour - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"

Goldfinches tumbling across the lawn - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

The last of the maroon crabapple ovates - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

Song sparrows that tremble all at once - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

A strong spell for reversal - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

The perpetual scattering that unspools the world - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

Accuracy amidst the perpetual scattering - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

Two different kitchen tables - Ada Limon "Joint Custody"

The record scratched and stopping - Ada Limon "Joint Custody"

That original chaotic track - Ada Limon "Joint Custody"

That always misses where I'm not - Ada Limon "Joint Custody"

Unsure of the usefulness of inevitable things - Ada Limon "A Little Distantly, As One Should"

I want to be the doctor of your mind - Ada Limon "Little Morning"

Anger blistering in the throat - Ada Limon "The Lost Glove"

The handcuff of obligation - Ada Limon "The Lost Glove"

Empty stars we've tossed aside - Ada Limon "Marketing Life for Those of Us Left"

Denies all its adversaries - Ada Limon "The New World of Beauty"

A lion in infinity (in here) - Ada Limon "The New World of Beauty"

Lost and already prepared for dust - Ada Limon "The New World of Beauty"

Both brave and buried bones - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

To be the General of Sorrow - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

Her rigid plans for infinity - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

Committing to this orbital mess - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

The horizon meeting my shoulders - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

Rotated and spun in our own isolations - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

Our bodies of bronze and blood - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

Even as the sober crow goes - Ada Limon "Overjoyed"

In the relentlessly delighted air - Ada Limon "Overjoyed"

The crane's scissoring shadow - Ada Limon "Paseo del Bosque"

In my mouth like bad water - Ada Limon "Paseo del Bosque"

A buzzard outside my window - Ada Limon "Paseo del Bosque"

And burn the Pilgrim's kiss - Ada Limon "Publicity"

Flashlight mimicry - Ada Limon "Publicity"

A choir of constant blackbirds - Ada Limon "Return to Rush and Flutter"

The soft life of your footprints - Ada Limon "The Same Thing"

And spirits behind those birds of flame - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"

Holding a bundle of rattlesnake grass - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"

Tiny flames in the river's ripples - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"

Without all those ghosts on the edge - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"

Spin a whole road map of a world - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Each thread a highway to its charge - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Unsure if I am jealous of the web or the fly - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Both of them sure of their beginnings and ends - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

A buoy that the ocean resents - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Prisoners who've recently overthrown the jail - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

But we could drown in a glass of water - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Dropping beneath the usual swing of things - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

To lie down on your inconsistent shore - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Where the orb spider continues to spin a hole - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

And bent toward the afternoon continuum - Ada Limon "Spring, 1989"

Bright reflection of traffic underneath - Ada Limon "Spring, 1989"

Plundering deep in the moon's ring - Ada Limon "Sting"

A minnow's life in the current - Ada Limon "Sting"

A sparrow underneath her tongue - Ada Limon "Territory"

Night of open obsidian and owls - Ada Limon "Territory"

Raised on poison oak and poppies - Ada Limon "Territory"

Every one of us with a bear inside - Ada Limon "Territory"

Calmed by our watermelon sun - Ada Limon "Territory"

They live off garbage and luck - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Making our strange disasters suddenly public - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Do not hold my own escape against me - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

The mad keeper of numbers is always present - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Pointing at this shock of stillness - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

We must accept the cage we are given - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Until then, praise the walls - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

The largest dinner bell in the state of longing - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Cannot be replaced by a bruisable thing - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Cannot be filled but only altered or cut away - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Replaced his compass with a heart-shaped clock - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Always he was in charge of his direction - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Found north to be in the heavens - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Protected by mandates of good nature - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

The lethal dose of wasp venom - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Long-wandered in the weather - Ada Limon "To the Busted Among Us"

The road has been paved in rain - Ada Limon "The Widening Road"

Becoming her own wild whisper - Ada Limon "The Widening Road"

The song in my head has whiskey in it - Ada Limon "World Versus Girl"

A nest of clean teeth - Ada Limon "World Versus Girl"

No one lived here before me - Ada Limon "The Worth of a Thing That Is Not a Thing But a Number"

Reruns and parking lots and reruns of parking lots - Ada Limon "The Worth of a Thing That Is Not a Thing But a Number"


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