Potential Titles: June Jordan

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And carry me into a seven-day kiss - June Jordan "Alla Tha's All Right, But"

That tapers down to salt poured in the breach - June Jordan "Alla Tha's All Right, But"

Not obliterate the distance or the time - June Jordan "The Bombing of Baghdad"

Tools of a terrorist undertaking - June Jordan "The Bombing of Baghdad"

Because I live inside his grave - June Jordan "The Bombing of Baghdad"

Trinkets from slow compromise - June Jordan "Ghaflah"

The abyss into which I capsized - June Jordan "Ghaflah"

Chase me down death's way - June Jordan "I guess it was my destiny to live so long"

Revenge in merciless accelerating rhythms - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"

Blossom bloody on an afternoon - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"

Must become the action of my fate - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"

Before I teach myself retaliation - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"

Must become a menace to my enemies - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"

A phantom dictate I obey - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"

In lieu of impulse and realities - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"

According to some universal stage direction - June Jordan "In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr."

Share an afternoon of mourning - June Jordan "In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr."

Walks among the flowers to my doorway - June Jordan "It's Hard to Keep a Clean Shirt Clean"

Prickling salt to sting our eyes - June Jordan "It's Hard to Keep a Clean Shirt Clean"

Through the darkness with his own becoming light - June Jordan "July 4, 1974"

Redeem the words of our beginning - June Jordan "Moving towards Home"

Against the relentless laughter of evil - June Jordan "Moving towards Home"

Infinity doesn't interest me - June Jordan "On a New Year's Eve"

Toward that natural first absurdity - June Jordan "On a New Year's Eve"

The flame of my single space - June Jordan "On Time Tanka"

Courage that cries out at night - June Jordan "Oughta Be a Woman"

Disclosed by the stars and the silence - June Jordan "Poem About My Rights"

Lighting the entire soft lace of the air - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"

Luminous like particles of flame - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"

An afternoon of apricots and water - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"

Beside the low tide of the world - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"

And rivers precious to the stars - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

Told old stories to the night - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

Dancing to the shadow drums - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

That humble birds to silent flight - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

My face among the wounded coins - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

Inside the tomb of all my trust - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

Isolate among the hungers of the trees - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

Tinder so long unsolicited by flame - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

A fluid holiness of spirits - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

A gold medallion for her suffering - June Jordan "Poems for One Little Girl Blue"

Whispering imagination to the trees - June Jordan "Poem for South African Women"

Unequivocal as crystal thread - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

Undertake terrestrial forms of everything unspeakable - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

Blood rising under the Andes - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

Corrupted by the amorality of so much space - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

The face of the confession far from home - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

The commonplace expression of my heart - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

We lose the idea of the sky - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

The sky uncurling to the light - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

Our hearts will argue hard - June Jordan "Roman Poem Number Thirteen"

Winners of the wars against breathing - June Jordan "Roman Poem Number Thirteen"

A summoning forever immanent - June Jordan "6.3.96-6.4.96"

The madness of the trickster - June Jordan "6.3.96-6.4.96"

Agencies that jeopardize the birdsong - June Jordan "6.3.96-6.4.96"

Words live in the spirit of her face - June Jordan "A Song for Soweto"

Things that I do in the dark - June Jordan "These Poems"

Learning to worship the strangers - June Jordan "These Poems"

We remain out of our element - June Jordan "You Came with Shells"


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