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This pure shadow of travel - Claire Millikin "After Ballet"

Made of straws of night - Claire Millikin "After Ballet"

Our table of the vanishing point - Claire Millikin "After Ballet"

From which dreams of cold clarity emerge - Claire Millikin "Amatorium"

Keep the lens of vision open - Claire Millikin "Amatorium"

After a year of boundless fasting - Claire Millikin "Anorexic Girl"

Practicing our recitals of silence - Claire Millikin "Antique Doll"

Carrying the psalm of last chances - Claire Millikin "August Sander's 'Man with Dancing Bear, 1928, Westerwald'"

Have been forced to speak silently - Claire Millikin "August Sander's 'Man with Dancing Bear, 1928, Westerwald'"

Vested by gravity - Claire Millikin "Baby Alive"

No words without shadows - Claire Millikin "Bright Shadows"

Vacant parking lots like dark hallways - Claire Millikin "Bright Shadows"

Awaiting his daughters of wax - Claire Millikin "The Candle-Maker's Daughters"

Rides of grace and penitence - Claire Millikin "Carnal"

Dreams haunted by vertigo - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"

A city of starlings and dogwood - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"

Reverse that bridge of the falling sun - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"

Come back to the house of limits - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"

Because all equations balance - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"

Ghosts in relict summer light - Claire Millikin "Coke-bottle Barbie-doll"

Painted water blue to keep out ghosts - Claire Millikin "Coke-bottle Barbie-doll"

A house is sky folded back - Claire Millikin "Cupboard"

Further down pinewoods' blood horizon - Claire Millikin "Cupboard"

Shadowing backyard pear trees - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"

Cannot ask the living for grace - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"

In houses of oblique mourning - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"

For whom they suppress their tears - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"

In a basket of glass rain - Claire Millikin "Doll Daughter"

Shelved for years without testimony - Claire Millikin "Doll Mothers"

Salt-blue eyes and rust lips - Claire Millikin "Dolls of Tifton, Georgia"

Centuries of rain weighed the windows down - Claire Millikin "Dress Like a Girl"

Red needles marking air with rust - Claire Millikin "Dress Like a Girl"

Rehearse the ways you might escape - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"

As if you belonged to no one - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"

Patience for the distance - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"

November sky mimes heaven - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"

Whatever vermilion myth flies - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"

Vespers freeze early winter's backyard - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"

The long shadow of gravity - Claire Millikin "Escalator"

The way a sky shuts with rain - Claire Millikin "Escalator"

Hold that porcelain silence - Claire Millikin "Figurine"

Fragments of the broken world - Claire Millikin "Figurine"

Shatter the room with light - Claire Millikin "Fire"

Among the world's lost metaphors - Claire Millikin "Floyd Burroughs' Cigarettes"

The vanished curls and tendrils of this universe - Claire Millikin "Floyd Burroughs' Cigarettes"

One more gift I squandered to survive - Claire Millikin "Floyd Burroughs' Second Pack of Cigarette"

That story of autumn and the camera - Claire Millikin "Hans Bellmer's Dolls"

Every word a path through darkness - Claire Millikin "The Hunt"

One place without connection - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"

Antlers frozen with grief - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"

Rises from bedrock hematite - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"

But the rains remembered those hallways - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"

There will be no winter left - Claire Millikin "The Insect Doll"

Folios of unspeakable sorrow - Claire Millikin "Linear A and B"

Garners neither wage nor voice - Claire Millikin "Manikin"

The mannequin's shadow, perfect and bereft - Claire Millikin "The Mannequins"

A golden plinth for sky - Claire Millikin "The Mannequins"

The stillness of sleep attends them - Claire Millikin "The Mannequins"

Brace for summer's aftermath - Claire Millikin "The Mannequins"

Turnstiles for their immaterial sleep - Claire Millikin "Medicine for Broken Dolls"

The frayed seam of bad dreams - Claire Millikin "Medicine for Broken Dolls"

Trace back spring's tattered weather - Claire Millikin "Medicine for Broken Dolls"

In a house of quiet criminals - Claire Millikin "Night Insects"

The violent side of paper dolls - Claire Millikin "Paper Doll Eyes"

Where salt dries in ascending pools - Claire Millikin "Paper Doll Eyes"

Cut myself to its contours - Claire Millikin "Peacock Coat"

Canted weft of rain - Claire Millikin "Peacock Coat"

The coat lined with a thousand invisible scars - Claire Millikin "Peacock Coat"

The small, bitter hawks of grief - Claire Millikin "Pierced Dolls"

Shadows of birds crossing a road - Claire Millikin "Pierced Dolls"

Listening to a vanishing grief - Claire Millikin "Princess Coat"

Bearing torches, chanting vengeance - Claire Millikin "Prizewinners of the Apocalypse"

Tugged by forest's feral animals - Claire Millikin "Prizewinners of the Apocalypse"

The prize of the apocalypse varies - Claire Millikin "Prizewinneres of the Apocalypse"

From the rabbits' more secret house - Claire Millikin "Rabbit Theory"

Mineral, weft, and forge - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

Flesh, pulse and shadow's ventriloquisms - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

The town square is filled with ghosts - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

Transverse physics of the cut - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

And ghosts never left behind - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

An apatite translucency of winter sky - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

Balance in front of blank time - Claire Millikin "Rooms Before Television"

Caught elegy's peripheral glance - Claire Millikin "Rooms Before Television"

Transmute the house from tarnish - Claire Millikin "Rust"

Grafted through dying elms - Claire Millikin "Salad Bar"

The reasons for betrayal - Claire Millikin "Selfie as Illusory Child at Birthday Party"

Reflected inwards through glass skies - Claire Millikin "Selfie as Illusory Child at Birthday Party"

A kind of raw ecstasy - Claire Millikin "Selfie as Illusory Child at Birthday Party"

No wonder I cry glass tears - Claire Millikin "Seven Stops"

The extreme logic of filial trash - Claire Millikin "Shoe-Box Doll House"

Stretches equations toward zero or infinity - Claire Millikin "Shoes in Photographs"

Pack the car with the weight of rain - Claire Millikin "Shopping Mall Dolls"

Sometimes the journey releases you - Claire Millikin "Shopping Mall Dolls"

Derivatives of rain without protection - Claire Millikin "Some Dolls"

Colloquium of dark birds and mirrors - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"

The attic holds its stopped worlds - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"

Of frangipani and dark oratory roses - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"

Awaiting a stillness to calm the mind - Claire Millikin "Union Station, Washington, D.C."

Transfigured tarnish of another's mirror - Claire Millikin "The Unpopular Dress"

Inside the carapace of dress - Claire Millikin "The Unpopular Dress"

Misses these realms by a letter - Claire Millikin "Vesture"

Where souls could be mended in secret - Claire Millikin "Witness"


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