Potential Titles: John James

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Rust-flakes erupting from the lungs - John James "After Guatemala"

Courting a horse with an apple - John James "April, Andromeda"

A heart held back for the knife - John James "April, Andromeda"

Walked past rows of jeweled honeysuckle - John James "April, Andromeda"

Upside down with respect to the eclipse - John James "April, Andromeda"

Misers of sound and syllable - John James "April, Andromeda"

Poised to disclose some secret - John James "At Assateague"

The gravitation of the tide's pull - John James "At Assateague"

An orchard chaotic with apple blossoms - John James "Beneath the Trees at Ellingsworth"

Frost in the hollow of a throat - John James "Beneath the Trees at Ellingsworth"

The nickel wire of my throat - John James "Catalogue Beginning with a Line by Plato"

A lampshade exhausted by light - John James "Catalogue Beginning with a Line by Plato"

Recedes against the sky's aperture - John James "Driving Arizona"

Pressed in a rock of mined coal - John James "End"

Sunlight splayed between grains - John James "Erosion"

Haloes of ash around her sleeping eyes - John James "Erosion"

Dead shells accumulating on the windowsill - John James "Forget the Song"

Ash trees wilting by the creek - John James "Forget the Song"

In the room where she never sleeps - John James "Forget the Song"

Light slowed to the pace of material transfer - John James "Forget the Song"

Braided cotton converted to ember - John James "Forget the Song"

Breath like a wave of cicadas - John James "Heirloom (Wreck)"

This is the storm we call progress - John James "Klee's Painting"

A perfect catastrophe set into lines - John James "Klee's Painting"

A disposition fragile as his breathing - John James "Klee's Painting"

Tread the precipice of the abyss - John James "Lullaby"

The slowing stream of morning - John James "Lullaby"

Sun pummels the windows - John James "Lullaby"

Summons tiny seedlings from the mud - John James "Lullaby"

And soaks the wood in flame - John James "Lullaby"

Suggesting a vague idea of order - John James "Materia"

The light a thin space to crawl into - John James "Materia"

Wanted to grasp the flame's heat - John James "Materia"

By the river where the wind stops - John James "Materia"

Spend a night or two among the dead - John James "Le Moribond"

The stone moon descends to brush his shoulders clean - John James "Other Adam"

Drinks from a bucket of stars - John James "Other Adam"

On his third night of dreams - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

The final berries of the season - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

As the stars seep through his window - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

The orchid dying bloom by bloom - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

Hear an emptiness in the wind - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

Throwing cold light through the black matter - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

Stars fizzle in the map of still time - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

The mind's yearning for conceit - John James "Scarecrow"

A sheaf of red cloth soaked in rain - John James "Scarecrow"

Knotted to a strand of barbed wire - John James "Scarecrow"

The scarecrow standing sentinel in the dark - John James "Scarecrow"

Dreams of salt and light - John James "Scarecrow"

Feeding breadcrumbs to geese - John James "Sonata"

Scars on the chests of the birds - John James "Sonata"

I have cleaved to what I know - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

The tempered regularity of falling leaves - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

The speed with which the bulbs blast - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Already the daffodils bury their heads in the dirt - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

I bask in eddies of unseasonable light - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Eying the spiral turn of the plum tree's gentle confetti - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"


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