Potential Titles: Achy Obejas

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Made the choice of rupture - Achy Obejas "Boomerang, After Aime Cesaire"

Accept fate today and cast it out tomorrow - Achy Obejas "Boomerang, After Aime Cesaire"

When memory escapes, overtake it - Achy Obejas "Conceits"

That can make any lie seem true - Achy Obejas "Conceits"

What survives is memory - Achy Obejas "Dancing in Paradise"

Carnivores in their own essential food chain - Achy Obejas "Dancing in Paradise"

stand on the shoulders of a smaller atlas - Achy Obejas "Heroes in exile"

Beneath the slow moving asphalt - Achy Obejas "Inner Core"

Eighteen-hundred miles to a river of fire - Achy Obejas "Inner Core"

Swimming against the molten current - Achy Obejas "Inner Core"

The perimeter of our damned circumstances - Achy Obejas "My Island Lover"

A cadence of perfectly chronicled images - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"

Rambling on the steaming savannas - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"

Their feet never leaving the ground - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"

To shield your eyes from the lantern light - Achy Obejas "The Man in White"

Among the lifting waves unafraid - Achy Obejas "The Man in White"

Brittle enough to be believed - Achy Obejas "The Man with No Legs"

Unafraid of the night and its noises - Achy Obejas "Naiad"

Plunge from warm waters to cool air - Achy Obejas "Naiad"

The hours are distributed according to need - Achy Obejas "Naiad"

All the movements of the earth - Achy Obejas "Naiad"

The consequences of falling in love - Achy Obejas "Naiad"

The drums and the darkness within - Achy Obejas "Recountal"

The same horizon as yesterday - Achy Obejas "Recountal"

The holy burden of being the last on standing - Achy Obejas "Recountal"

Photos retouched for accuracy - Achy Obejas "Recountal"

The bones along the ocean floor - Achy Obejas "Recountal"

The Clock of the Long Now - Achy Obejas "Slow"

Stellar and solar alignments - Achy Obejas "Slow"

Time is a ruined fountain - Achy Obejas "Slow"

Headfirst dive into stillness - Achy Obejas "Slow"

Inoculate us from the fallacies of hope - Achy Obejas "Succession"

Scattered starlings from the black sun - Achy Obejas "Succession"

In the necessary oblivion of the circumstances - Achy Obejas "Volver"

If not for the price of sugar and oil - Achy Obejas "Volver"

If not for revolution and exile - Achy Obejas "Volver"

The promise of atonement in your return - Achy Obejas "Volver"

With sworn enemies and innocents - Achy Obejas "Volver"

Bring all the eloquence of your heart - Achy Obejas "Volver"

Guarded by angry geese - Achy Obejas "Volver"

A circuit of white orchids ringing - Achy Obejas "Volver"

An appetite for the precipice - Achy Obejas "Waiting in Line with Hemingway"


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