Potential Titles: Mary Karr

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A factory line where molten lead spilled - Mary Karr "All This and More"

The red eyes of a friend you cursed - Mary Karr "All This and More"

Dark in our bodies - Mary Karr "Animistic Anatomy"

The broad rivers of the heart - Mary Karr "Animistic Anatomy"

On the wide night's manifest - Mary Karr "Belongings"

Went deepest from the dark of me - Mary Karr "Belongings"

I am the rod to their lightning - Mary Karr "The Blessed Mother Complains to the Lord Her God on the Abundance of Brokenness She Receives"

The ruby sun feel from a cloud's bent claws - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

Sat unmoving and alert amid devouring light - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

Erasing the edges of herself every day - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

While her parents redrew her secretly into being - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

Emptied herself into that blazing child - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

And stared a hundred million miles - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl""

The flaming tower we all dared to jump from - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl""

The narrow road I hoped to reach - Mary Karr "The Century's Worst Blizzard"

Knives hierarchical in a glass case - Mary Karr "Country Fair"

Some outward form of inner scorn - Mary Karr "Country Fair"

Sparks skittered overhead in a lightning web - Mary Karr "Country Fair"

Once our skulls shut up their nasty talk - Mary Karr "Country Fair"

So my poisoned soul announced - Mary Karr "County Fair"

Bearing the weight of a whole self - Mary Karr "County Fair"

To want no more than what we had - Mary Karr "County Fair"

So as not to scorch us with your glory - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: Christ Human"

Relinquishes self and will and want - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: Christ Human"

Grieving on his rock under olive trees - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

Poured the vial of poison into the betrayer's ear - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

The cracked earth radiated out for miles - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

Who stared up into the same punctured sky - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

The far star points of his pinned extremities - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

Black ice and squid ink - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

Lonely in that void even for pain - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

The stone fist of his heart began to bang - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

As warm water shatters at birth - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

Divide the world into increasingly small squares - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"

Found it in a spider's web at dawn - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"

Touched its head in poisonous salute - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"

Before returning to its sticky jigsaw - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"

That little fence against the war with dark - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"

What sad nights I'll cradle in my lap - Mary Karr "Diogenes Passes the Time"

Punched the saddest numbers on the jukebox - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"

Who mops the four corners of my world - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"

A ring of keys that can open any door - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"

Some rigamarole they hired cheap - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"

Warring factions agreed up the date and final form - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

If the dead would come or be left a forwarding address - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Postulate the exact shade of the astral self - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Rocketed copies of the decree to paradise - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Citizens readied for celestial ascent - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Aroma of basil and tangerine washed over - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

And flung the planets over his shoulder - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

A wisteria poked its lank blossoms through the cloudbank - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Then vanished in puffs of luminous smoke - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

The journey lasting more than ten lifetimes - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

A mauve vine corkscrewed up from the deep oblivion - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

The singed fume of things beautiful, noble, and wrong - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

As Satan spider-like stalked the orb of dark - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Surrounding Eden for a wormhole into paradise - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Sailed a soul like a lit arrow to inhabit me - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Whose scalpel cut a lightning bolt - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

My fingers grow past crayon outlines - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

When my thirst got great enough to ask - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Some jade wave buoyed me forward - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

A garden inside my own ribs aflourish - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Stare hard enough at the fabric of night - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

Already scratched your name on a bullet - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

Confident there are no gods out there - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

Blind to your own eye's intricate machine - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

Body-surfed the hollow waves - Mary Karr "For My Children"

At night I travelled everywhere on LSD - Mary Karr "For My Children"

Saw my entire history in an avocado seed - Mary Karr "For My Children"

A quick replay of all my dawns - Mary Karr "For My Children"

Rise to your unfamiliar light - Mary Karr "The Last of the Brooding Miserables"

Which earns but lessened gravity - Mary Karr "Lifecycle Stairmaster"

Where a cigarette is my flashlight - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

All night I've untangled alleys - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

Like messages that will never be caught - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

Paris makes me speak this strange language - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

I shake the whole world dark again - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

Went to worship at the cathedral of emptiness - Mary Karr "Mall Crawl"

In the freezerspill of smoky Arctic starlight - Mary Karr "Metaphysique du Mal"

Afloat in their ancient miasma - Mary Karr "Metaphysique du Mal"

Just erasing the pages of her diary - Mary Karr "The New Year"

Forgotten news whipped against parking meters - Mary Karr "The New Year"

Against the door to heaven - Mary Karr "The Pallbearer"

While we felt all muscles tighten for escape - Mary Karr "The Patient"

Each white second was knit into a sheet - Mary Karr "The Patient"


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