Potential Titles: Terrance Hayes

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For my past and future assassin - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"

Wearing glee & sadness - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"

The light grazing my teeth - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"

The flame like a blade cutting me - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"

In a layer of mischief - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"

The fingers of some calamity - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for Wanda C."

Hurt where the moon should be - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for Wanda C."

Of troubled instances and blind instruction - Terrance Hayes "Anchor Head"

A salt-worn dream-anchor - Terrance Hayes "Anchor Head"

Clouds above each other's dreams - Terrance Hayes "Arbor for Butch"

Even when your lantern burns out - Terrance Hayes "Arbor for Butch"

And darkened by its ash - Terrance Hayes "Arbor for Butch"

Who tore Orpheus when he refused to sing - Terrance Hayes "At Pegasus"

If you subtract your minor losses - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"

The blackboard chalked with crosses - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"

Everything I hold takes root - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"

Their bloodshot octaves of consequence - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"

Watching the sky regret nothing - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"

Turned to ash in the brutal light - Terrance Hayes "Cocktails with Orpheus"

See how fire changes everything - Terrance Hayes "Cocktails with Orpheus"

Walking on the back of the wind - Terrance Hayes "Coffin for Head of State"

Pulled from death's pocket - Terrance Hayes "Coffin for Head of State"

Holding the shadow of a name - Terrance Hayes "Coffin for Head of State"

The paradoxes of revenge - Terrance Hayes "Coffin for Head of State"

Turn need into want - Terrance Hayes "Elegant Tongue"

No mind for boundaries - Terrance Hayes "Elegant Tongue"

A house of damaged translations - Terrance Hayes "Fish Head for Katrina"

Acquiring air under water - Terrance Hayes "Fish Head for Katrina"

The dreams of mothers with no children - Terrance Hayes "God Is an American"

Clinging to your moorings - Terrance Hayes "God Is an American"

Aches like an open book - Terrance Hayes "God Is an American"

Smoke thinned to song - Terrance Hayes "The Golden Shovel"

Weakened by the fire's etherial afterglow - Terrance Hayes "The Golden Shovel"

Cooler than heartache - Terrance Hayes "The Golden Shovel"

Straightened by its shadow - Terrance Hayes "The Golden Shovel"

The heart weary of its grief - Terrance Hayes "Hide"

A blindfold of razors - Terrance Hayes "Lighthead's Guide to Addiction"

To drink a dark strong poison - Terrance Hayes "Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy"

Its syllables of debris - Terrance Hayes "Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy"

And yet the flowers don't quit opening - Terrance Hayes "Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy"

Makes a mystic of the pauper - Terrance Hayes "Liner Notes for an Imaginary Planet"

Sometimes lyrics wear a blindfold - Terrance Hayes "Liner Notes for an Imaginary Planet"

Woke drenched in music - Terrance Hayes "Liner Notes for an Imaginary Planet"

Clothed in sweat and wistfulness - Terrance Hayes "Liner Notes for an Imaginary Planet"

How sin does battle - Terrance Hayes "Liner Notes for an Imaginary Planet"

The shallow end of a stormy sea - Terrance Hayes "Liner Notes for an Imaginary Planet"

The racket of ascension - Terrance Hayes "Mystic Bounce"

An abiding love for the abstract - Terrance Hayes "Mystic Bounce"

A capacity for love without forgiveness - Terrance Hayes "Snow for Wallace Stevens"

Hushed and clicking to rust - Terrance Hayes "Three Measures of Time"

With the daze the day begets - Terrance Hayes "Twenty Measures of Chitchat"

Of whatever grief calls itself - Terrance Hayes "Twenty Measures of Chitchat"

Quartets of sun people - Terrance Hayes "We Should Make a Documentary About Spades"

The boundary between mathematics and magic - Terrance Hayes "We Should Make a Documentary About Spades"

Before you sip strange whiskey - Terrance Hayes "We Should Make a Documentary About Spades"


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