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Lift my head up through the blades - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

Gravity would turn off its meter and wait - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

Just to hear the glass it breaks - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

In parking lots with moons in my mouth - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

I'd keep one trick in my ear - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

Feed chlorophyll to gutters under gasoline - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

Why children chalk suns on the sidewalk - francine j. harris "between old trees"

Each eve is well equipped with her own apple - francine j. harris "Burden, old story"

Well wrapped in a cloak of fruit - francine j. harris "Burden, old story"

Gold can rip up the ground beneath you - francine j. harris "Burden, old story"

Who questioned any other than Adam about the fruit - francine j. harris "Burden, old story"

You are a thousand priests - francine j. harris "confessional poetry"

Rub your shoulders with scissors - francine j. harris "dickhole and denise"

Conjured by a witch and stored with so little ice - francine j. harris "Did anyone ever ask any one of Nikita's daughters"

No one asked the tzar's daughters - francine j. harris "Did anyone ever ask any one of Nikita's daughters"

Renumbered into an urn of dust - francine j. harris "eight days until your ashes turn one"

Taste the blackberry thorn - francine j. harris "feeder"

The usual orange stampede - francine j. harris "feeder"

Set the moth's tongue toward tomorrow - francine j. harris "feeder"

Light gets afraid of tomorrow - francine j. harris "feeder"

Swirl down the sun - francine j. harris "feeder"

So the swarm knows how to proceed - francine j. harris "feeder"

Know the feast in their eyes - francine j. harris "from the bottom"

The difference when the weather aches - francine j. harris "from the bottom"

A lighthouse sinking invisible ships - francine j. harris "fume"

A robber with no hands - francine j. harris "fume"

Inside writhing sirens - francine j. harris "(i belong to that voice. it owns what i breathe.)"

Full of branches and mouths - francine j. harris "(i belong to that voice. it owns what i breathe.)"

Who keep their mouths caved open - francine j. harris "(i belong to that voice. it owns what i breathe.)"

Enough to fill the whole sky - francine j. harris "(i belong to that voice. it owns what i breathe.)"

Pollen blown off the backs of butterflies - francine j. harris "i live in detroit"

Dream in ten spikes of passionflower - francine j. harris "i live in detroit"

The dime store flower fields - francine j. harris "i used to write"

On diamonds at summer camp - francine j. harris "i used to write"

A brightness intended for violins - francine j. harris "intention"

The morning disappears clock faces - francine j. harris "intention"

The cough of the myriad smoker - francine j. harris "The neighbor's buddy watching my screen through the window"

How long ago you started to wander - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Crawling milkweed through dependence - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

How a pride's breath can move blossom to shiver - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Shape border from its river source - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Mussel of critical habit - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Under cypress and promise of tree - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Leak the grease of wayward stream - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Worth whole encampments in fool's dust and deed - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Imagine a way of shape that doesn't strangle - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Tern and piping plover that keeps expansion along its shore - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

And dark as the bark of our open souls - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Imagine the park of evergreen surrender - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Talons stretched over gold proportion - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Unstressed by factory and loud humming fuel - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Free to forage its riverine root - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Plant vigor along the Missouri - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

We each stab at gratitude - francine j. harris "Rabbit"

Catch yourself in a plate glass window - francine j. harris "Reflections in a Pool of Hair"

A lifetime of razor blades - francine j. harris "the road to jackson has orchids"

A promise not to draw blood - francine j. harris "the road to jackson has orchids"

Leaves the iron gate open - francine j. harris "roommates"

While the oil fills your spines with salt - francine j. harris "rub against it, where"

While the air lifts geese, indifferent - francine j. harris "rub against it, where"

To thaw a black fog - francine j. harris "rub against it, where"

Enough cold locked inside you - francine j. harris "rub against it, where"

Fences yield to sleep - francine j. harris "senses"

Sharpen wood's warp to a rust - francine j. harris "senses"

Just a bone song - francine j. harris "sift"

Whistle along the skin - francine j. harris "sift"

Didn't sleep on my bright side - francine j. harris "Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monstitch Past 45"

Make it through the sky - francine j. harris "Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monstitch Past 45"

These clouds are not God - francine j. harris "Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monstitch Past 45"

The sun will not always be so gracious - francine j. harris "Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monstitch Past 45"

Remembering this air - francine j. harris "Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monstitch Past 45"

Your mouth will make no empty shapes - francine j. harris "something in the water"

Salt my shoulders with ocean - francine j. harris "somewhere outside acme, i believe in castles"

the way that soap loves an airborne virus - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"

Half fragile as water, half hydrophobic wildchild - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"

How it hungers the virus until neither function - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"

Melting its thick heart and ripping it all away - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"

To take it dizzy and broken down through the falls - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"

The breeze in the shape of bees - francine j. harris "they seem to gather in one park"

Lampposts and cracked teeth - francine j. harris "to the man on the bus"

You're all rained out diamonds - francine j. harris "until it comes"

Mumbling the grey wax of a song - francine j. harris "until it comes"

A syrup ripe for yellow jackets - francine j. harris "until it comes"

Rude thoroughfares and abandoned mines - francine j. harris "Wetland"

Useless in the face of flood - francine j. harris "Wetland"

When we walk the perimeter - francine j. harris "Wetland"

See the ground starve and crack - francine j. harris "Wetland"

A brownstone for hummingbirds - francine j. harris "Wetland"

Break their teeth on concrete - francine j. harris "what teeth poems ain't"

Candle wax from last year's vigil - francine j. harris "what you'd find buried in the dirt under charles f. kettering sr. high school"

Sunset where there used to be a carnival - francine j. harris "why i haven't written"

A praying mantis in white sheets - francine j. harris "why i haven't written"

Give shout-outs in code - francine j. harris "would like to first thank god"

Your only plausible tongue - francine j. harris "you can't remove the city"

Snow poisoned the color of monoxide - francine j. harris "you, old meany"

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