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What I devote to trust - Khadijah Queen "Ancient Mother I Keep Teaching Us New Ways to Find Joy"

Who am I without this danger? - Khadijah Queen "Ancient Mother I Keep Teaching Us New Ways to Find Joy"

Used up on hard ground - Khadijah Queen "Anodyne"

Across the definition of blue - Khadijah Queen "Common Miracles"

Stitches itself a whitened scar - Khadijah Queen "Common Miracles"

By no known means compliant - Khadijah Queen "Copper Men"

No match for the waking flame - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

The rust of the cold day breaking - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

Winter keeps us lucky - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

Mottled grey-blue with threats of yellow - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

Rinse dreams from your skin - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

A dream in rowdy fragments - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

A graveyard for nights and dreams - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

To rise from my low camouflage - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

Letting hunger quicken the hunter in me - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

Etch your departing silhouette in gold - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

Human by whose degrees - Khadijah Queen "Dementia Is One Way to Say Fatal Brain Failure"

Twined up in loose fog, time-shocked - Khadijah Queen "Dementia Is One Way to Say Fatal Brain Failure"

Before that last time breaking - Khadijah Queen "Disposed"

Could eat in our silence - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"

Of a chase ending in blood - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"

The map of lines on her forehead - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"

The furrows earned rightfully by crones - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"

The violence of language in every space - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"

Smoke rising grey to white - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"

Crawling baby of magma and water - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"

How we fail is how we continue - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"

For attachment past attachment's end - Khadijah Queen "Epilogue for Personae"

A path to lose our sense of others - Khadijah Queen "Epilogue for Personae"

Or flood the field pink - Khadijah Queen "Epilogue for Personae"

The sun of unknown experiments - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"

Crash the window in a dream - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"

Carries the joy of struggle - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"

Not a name or a silence - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"

All fluent in nothing - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"

Hiding where your debt grows - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"

Another interior to hold the ruin - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"

The high ground of resurrection - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"

Guilt planted for others - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"

By the sorrow-struck heart - Khadijah Queen "Imminence"

Strike us as a reversal of sky - Khadijah Queen "Imminence"

Those immensities we forbid ourselves - Khadijah Queen "Imminence"

Choices to make for the labyrinth - Khadijah Queen "Imminence"

In a sea of smooth pebbles - Khadijah Queen "Live Unadorned"

Want to have the last sound - Khadijah Queen "Live Unadorned"

Ending in decayed light - Khadijah Queen "Monologue for Personae"

Outside time, inside unknown epochs - Khadijah Queen "Monologue for Personae"

To shutter the past in our ignorance - Khadijah Queen "Monologue for Personae"

untapped talents and salted bravado - Khadijah Queen "Ode to 180 Pairs of White Gloves"

Resembling a hoarded apocalypse - Khadijah Queen "Ode to 180 Pairs of White Gloves"

Against a corridor of wounds - Khadijah Queen "Ode to 180 Pairs of White Gloves"

Folding screams into lace - Khadijah Queen "Precipitation Erasure"

The stone forest alive with limestone - Khadijah Queen "Reclusionary"

If I had the bones for this - Khadijah Queen "Retreat"

My fragments fragile now - Khadijah Queen "Retreat"

The gentleness your questions taught - Khadijah Queen "Retreat"

In every burst of agreement - Khadijah Queen "Retreat"

Cannot divine from dust - Khadijah Queen "Route"

Left beside a homeless staircase - Khadijah Queen "Route"

Slow to relinquish cold - Khadijah Queen "The Rule of Opulence"

Newness a habit, change an addiction - Khadijah Queen "The Rule of Opulence"

In the discipline of upkeep - Khadijah Queen "The Rule of Opulence"

Beat its blood through thin chambers - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"

Still interrupts the body I didn't make - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"

An echo of her mother's absence - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"

Together on this side of unknowing - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"

All the finite seasons we have - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"

Unpredictable years keep emptying - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"

We came to deny the surface - Khadijah Queen "Sestina for Persona"

Scattered ruthless integrity - Khadijah Queen "Sestina for Persona"

Under constellations three fists apart - Khadijah Queen "Sky Erasure"

Until my pain is upside down - Khadijah Queen "Something About the Way I Am Made Is Not Made"

Bloom red & pink from my back - Khadijah Queen "Something About the Way I Am Made Is Not Made"

The bad luck of odd numbers - Khadijah Queen "Something About the Way I Am Made Is Not Made"

A ghost running crowded - Khadijah Queen "Synesthesia"

Severed the angriest part of me - Khadijah Queen "Synesthesia"

Double the raging weapons - Khadijah Queen "Synesthesia"

Learn the texture of a heart - Khadijah Queen "Synesthesia"

Seconds wasted count as wanting - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"

Try not to think about withering - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"

A potion for whatever you don't want - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"

Belonging in failed ways - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"

To unravel panic's thousand fingers - Khadijah Queen "Tower"

I don't want to drown in ocean math - Khadijah Queen "Tower"

Grief lives a new life as devotion - Khadijah Queen "Tower"

What's past resistance to change - Khadijah Queen "Tower"

Both living and dying require giving up - Khadijah Queen "Tower"

Adding fuel to what undoes the ozone - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"

Manifested as sinkholes under permafrost - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"

An arctic undoing of us - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"

Keeping time against the urge to quit - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"

Wrestling out loud to music - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"

Where travel is future - Khadijah Queen "Ut Pictura Poesis"

This luxury of even time to ask - Khadijah Queen "Ut Pictura Poesis"

to learn the secret of cruelty - Kadijah Queen "Violence, I know you"

Too much pressed into bones - Khadijah Queen "X"

In everything live a disturbance - Khadijah Queen "X"


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