Potential Titles: Tarfia Faizullah

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Watchful as window-light - Tarfia Faizullah "Acolyte"

Be the water you siphon into the roots - Tarfia Faizullah "Apology from a Muslim Orphan"

The dark has its own blindfold - Tarfia Faizullah "Aubade with Sage and Lemon"

Crystallize with revelation - Tarfia Faizullah "Because There's Still a Sky, Junebug"

The names of our dying - Tarfia Faizullah "Consider the Hands Once Smaller"

To quench my anger's thirst - Tarfia Faizullah "Diary"

Refuse to ask or answer - Tarfia Faizullah "Diary"

The defiance of forest fires - Tarfia Faizullah "The Distance Between Fire and Stone"

Across the floors of strangers - Tarfia Faizullah "Djinn in Need of a Bitch"

The handful of invisible everything - Tarfia Faizullah "The Hidden Register of Solace"

You only exist because of thirst - Tarfia Faizullah "I Told the Water"

The voices of these hurt women flowering - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"

Flowering like marigolds or thistles - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"

This utter, sooted darkness - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"

Through the veranda's black iron bars - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"

Dark silhouette hurrying past - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"

Until the doorknob went silent - Tarfia Faizullah "100 Bells"

Will misunderstand my silence - Tarfia Faizullah "Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth"

Built for my own mind - Tarfia Faizullah "Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth"

Another year of pretending - Tarfia Faizullah "Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth"

Fighting eons-deep - Tarfia Faizullah "Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth"

Twisting and turning across these lifetimes - Tarfia Faizullah "The Poem You've Been Waiting For"

Forgetting me is what you do - Tarfia Faizullah "The Poem You've Been Waiting For"

All your jagged syntaxes softened - Tarfia Faizullah "The Poem You've Been Waiting For"

Here you are the only monster - Tarfia Faizullah "Red-Lipped Poem"

The last and first star - Tarfia Faizullah "Red-Lipped Poem"

In this insomniac light - Tarfia Faizullah "Register of Eliminated Villages"

Over sheaves of bones - Tarfia Faizullah "Register of Eliminated Villages"

For the promise of my name - Tarfia Faizullah "Register of Eliminated Villages"

Smudge the marrow of myself into light - Tarfia Faizullah "Self-Portrait as Artemis"

The night braids my hair - Tarfia Faizullah "Self-Portrait as Artemis"

Into each day's dark hands - Tarfia Faizullah "Self-Portrait as Slinky"

Done cataloguing loss - Tarfia Faizullah "Sex or Sleep or Silk"

forward is not so far away - Tarfia Faizullah "Surah"

More sugar than sting - Tarfia Faizullah "Variations on a Cemetery in Summer"

She has never told me anything but the truth - Tarfia Faizullah "Wait Until It Grows Roots"

I've been leaving the doors open too - Tarfia Faizullah "Wait Until It Grows Roots"

The spirits flit more freely now - Tarfia Faizullah "Wait Until It Grows Roots"

A friend can bring you back to your sweeter senses - Tarfia Faizullah "Wait Until It Grows Roots"

Famished with stars - Tarfia Faizullah "West Texas Nocturne"

Thought I could live without grief - Tarfia Faizullah "What This Elegy Wants"

The morning's flustered shadows - Tarfia Faizullah "What This Elegy Wants"

The sounds of their own grief - Tarfia Faizullah "You Ask Why Write About It Again"

The heft and shimmer of sorrow - Tarfia Faizullah "You Ask Why Write About It Again"

But what can you tell me of sorrow - Tarfia Faizullah "Your Own Palm"

Etched on your own palm - Tarfia Faizullah "Your Own Palm"


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