Potential Titles: Elizabeth Alexander

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Envelopes of money in other people's pockets - Elizabeth Alexander "The African Picnic"

A pronouncement about poetry and peace - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"

Quintessentially frigid Saturday - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"

Wishing for the same thing - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"

Caught in the vapor between this world and that - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"

Smoothes the earth we trample - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"

Daily, in light and in dreams - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"

Burn to a wick and keep moving - Elizabeth Alexander "Blues"

Cream spun around into butter - Elizabeth Alexander "Butter"

One hundred megawatts of butter - Elizabeth Alexander "Butter"

To squeeze a drop of venom or of honey - Elizabeth Alexander "Equinox"

Light as an empty hive - Elizabeth Alexander "Equinox"

Learned to swim in the caustic water - Elizabeth Alexander "Haircut"

While real ghosts walk around me - Elizabeth Alexander "Haircut"

Family mirrors haunt their own reflections - Elizabeth Alexander "Ladders"

In the strange exhilaration after - Elizabeth Alexander "One Week Later in the Strange"

Awakening us to the open space - Elizabeth Alexander "One Week Later in the Strange"

Noise and bramble, thorn and din - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"

Repairing the things in need of repair - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"

Casts a widening pool of light - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"

On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"

Past the dark pool your voice makes - Elizabeth Alexander "Stray"

My brother's unfamiliar ions vibrating - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"

A hot meal that can take us anywhere - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"

A silent, mammoth thing that overwhelmed me - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"

Made up a language in which to exist - Elizabeth Alexander "Toomer"


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