Potential Titles: Judy Jordan

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In the crow's plummeting cry - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Memory calls me to the earth's opening - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Into a bat's wing-brush of air - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

In a teacup's worth of dirt - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

In each slant rain's worried whispers - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Learned the funereal smell of carnations - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Four years in the asylum - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

The evening sky bruised dull gray - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

The stove is cold so salt won't burn - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

The knife in a pail of water - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

In winter's spider-eyed light - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Hidden passages, runaways, and orphaned days - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Sleeps in broken buildings - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Dropped through holes in the sidewalk - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Drawn to the easy sound of sleep - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

The pattern night pens on tender skin - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Tells no one except the sycamore - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Taps your sins on water pipes - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

The tail feathers of soot-mottled birds - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

And wheel into the scalded sky - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Strychnine and scouring powder - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

The stranger I should have become - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

And disappear through the back door - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

A woman's name churned in sea foam - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

The burned light of his own country - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Of rosemary and dried tomatoes - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

The sun in its relentless veracity - Judy Jordan "Prologue"


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