Potential Titles: Sam Sax

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the body is ink in the earth - Sam Sax "Bury"

death's a similar kind of commerce - Sam Sax "Bury"

thrashing in the white space between - Sam Sax "Bury"

through so many apocalypses - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"

that occur nightly in this late stage of the collapsing - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"

back to some childhood we never got to live - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"

not my down payment or my dowery - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"

of naming what is by what is not - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"

we leave our objects behind us - Sam Sax "Objectophile"

collect our dead's leavings & listen - Sam Sax "Objectophile"

there can be movement in stillness - Sam Sax "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

in every broken syllable of traffic - Sam Sax "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

the speed of a tree eating light - Sam Sax "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

business is built from freight trains and warships - Sam Sax "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

these bridges should only connect the living - Sam Sax "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

the holiest word i know is no - Sam Sax "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

no more money for the endless throat of money - Sam Sax "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

no more syllogisms that permission endless suffering - Sam Sax "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

who stretch a drop of oil into a week of light - Sam Sax "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

as the chevron burns in the distance - Sam Sax "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

what mycelia spreads its speaking limbs beneath the floors - Sam Sax "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

it takes god six days to make the terrible world - Sam Sax "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

a student first of ingratitude - Sam Sax "Pedagogy"

ungracious as a wasp - Sam Sax "Pedagogy"

a knot in a history of rope - Sam Sax "Pedagogy"

beats the page until knuckles singe - Sam Sax "Pedagogy"

The singed end of a family line - Sam Sax "Poem in Which the Writer Sees Himself in an Old Textbook, 1943"

sung names into their absence - Sam Sax "Politics of Elegy"

the gulf between an epitaph & an epic - Sam Sax "Politics of Elegy"

a ghost haunting my wallet - Sam Sax "Politics of Elegy"


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