Potential Titles: Patrick Phillips

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One endless white furrow of water - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"

Skirted the rocks and wrecked trawlers - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"

Abandoned old jetties just under the water - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"

Happens a dozen times some days - Patrick Phillips "Falling"

Always dwindling to just the two of us - Patrick Phillips "For Paul"

Woodsmoke rising to the ashy stars - Patrick Phillips "For Paul"

Used to chainsmoke on the mezzanine - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"

Watch the escalator's endless crawl - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"

Yellow lading slips among the weeds - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"

Where it sleeps in green velvet - Patrick Phillips "The Guitar"

Crumble to dust in its arms - Patrick Phillips "The Guitar"

Waking with scalpels arrayed on my chest - Patrick Phillips "Having a Fight With You"

My heart a stalled engine - Patrick Phillips "Having a Fight With You"

Whispering everything twice - Patrick Phillips "Matinee"

An orchard behind the strip mall - Patrick Phillips "Matinee"

All that's left of what I was - Patrick Phillips "Piano"

Breeze blowing across its rusted strings - Patrick Phillips "Piano"

Each time she sings their secret song - Patrick Phillips "The Singing"


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