Potential Titles: Gregory Orr

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Lived with eight sisters in a warm ocean - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

A transparent stalk rooted in sand - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

Walking toward you on this bridge of poems - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

A thousand paper coffins laid end to end - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

Born with a knife in one hand and a wound in the other - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

All the mirrors were painted black - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

A scorpion scratches about under a rubbish heap - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"

The foundations of collapsed houses - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"

Under layers of leaves and soft dirt - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"

Stands at night beside a ruined house - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"

This black moon pulls at my bones - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"

Caged in a room of mirrors - Gregory Orr "The Cage"

The deep snow of oblivion - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

The winds walk around it - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Building the first house of song - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Yielded to the pull of the globe - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

The poem was my ladder - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Rungs and lifts of escape - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Mockingbird in the magnolia - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Angels dancing all day on the roof - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

A thousand roads lead to it - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Tang of salt in the walls - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

The color of my longing - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Not all spun sugar and gossamer - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

If half the rumors are true - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Step across without stretching - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Porch made of breath - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

House made of air - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Huge twig-piles of words - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Parrots and a bowl of peaches - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Corridors only ghosts patrol - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Will build their huts out of mud and bones - Gregory Orr "The Dead in Early Spring"

A rose made from cellophane - Gregory Orr "Domestic Life"

Might circle back as memory - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: Departure"

The best dreams vanish most quickly - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: Eve"

Tugging black thread of tunnel - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: The Parade"

Stitching a dark shroud - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: The Parade"

Trusting branches not to break - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Build"

As if acts had no consequence - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Choose"

Leaving Eden was not grief - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Love"

Smug nouns of dominion - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Notice"

Adam's eyes would weary the world - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"

Wore as sheath and shield - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"

Shiny with its afterbirth of light - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"

With only sight connecting - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"

Always to the garden's edge - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Stray"

Whatever flowered had to fade - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Understand"

Sorrow and pleasure grew on the same tree - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Understand"

Moving tokens of becoming's task - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Verb"

Their glory was spoken as motion - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Verb"

Idle doodles and arbitrary scratches - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Write"

A man who has swallowed a cloud - Gregory Orr "From That Moment"

Settles in the branches of his lungs - Gregory Orr "From That Moment"

Small bones scattered in a field among burdocks - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together One: A Night in the Barn"

Staring into the glass well of my hands - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Three"

This smoke turns people into shadows - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Four: Smoke"

Lives in a house of black glass - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Five"

A child sleeping on a nest of bones - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Five"

A white road only as long as your body - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Six: The Journey"

The path at my feet disappears - Gregory Orr "A House in the Country"

This thing, so frail and alien - Gregory Orr "A House in the Country"

Curl up in the top branches and sleep - Gregory Orr "A Life"

Murdered by owls and bats - Gregory Orr "The Nocturnal Picnic"

Wandered through a field of abandoned furniture - Gregory Orr "Pastoral"

The stone whose flower opens inward - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

Bowed by a ceaseless wind - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

And only hard furrows remain - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

Promises never to mend it again - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

Intimacy not yet a science - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

The abyss between you is infinite - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

And distance mocks your shout - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

Alchemy of grief - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

Doesn't the world demand we dance? - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

The least blade of grass in the breeze - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

August days ripening the blackberries - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

Time is a wound that can't close - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

Wearing a little necklace of blood pearls - Gregory Orr "The Teeth of Sleep"

Ragged holes through which a black wind blows - Gregory Orr "These Words"

The weight of your shell pulls you deeper - Gregory Orr "The Transformation"

Coming with wolves on leashes - Gregory Orr "Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm"

Saw the wall of hills on fire - Gregory Orr "Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm"


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