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Stack up against the seasons - Natasha Trethewey "Accounting"

On the field's open page - Natasha Trethewey "Again, the Fields"

That cold house and dinner alone - Natasha Trethewey "Amateur Fighter"

Holding his body up to pain - Natasha Trethewey "Amateur Fighter"

Glowing like bottled light - Natasha Trethewey "Cameo"

The geometry of her flight - Natasha Trethewey "Carpenter Bee"

Nothing but my memory intact - Natasha Trethewey "Carpenter Bee"

His hand deep in knowledge - Natasha Trethewey "Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956"

Tokens of history long buried - Natasha Trethewey "Elegy for the Native Guards"

A parade beneath the stars - Natasha Trethewey "Expectant"

Each night a refrain - Natasha Trethewey "Expectant"

Each touch rippling to the next - Natasha Trethewey "Gathering"

And give sweetness back - Natasha Trethewey "Gathering"

Preserve handpicked days in memory - Natasha Trethewey "Gathering"

Take what we need of light - Natasha Trethewey "Gathering"

Distilling light from volatile darkness - Natasha Trethewey "Give and Take"

Taking whatever his hands will give - Natasha Trethewey "His Hands"

To the cluttered house of memory - Natasha Trethewey "Limen"

Making the green hearts flutter - Natasha Trethewey "Limen"

A world made by displacement - Natasha Trethewey "Monument"

A blister on my heart - Natasha Trethewey "Monument"

Carry his doom to sleep - Natasha Trethewey "Mythmaker"

Reinvent you a thousand times - Natasha Trethewey "Mythmaker"

And shape them in creation - Natasha Trethewey "Mythmaker"

The landscape's song of bondage - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"

Both path and destination of freedom - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"

Red with the promise of fortune - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"

Between silences too big for words - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"

Exiles in their own homeland - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"

The rough edge of beauty - Natasha Trethewey "Photograph: Ice Storm, 1971"

As one turns, forgetting, from the past - Natasha Trethewey "Pilgrimage"

The dead stand up in stone - Natasha Trethewey "Pilgrimage"

And see nothing but dark - Natasha Trethewey "Saturday Drive"

Just above the noise - Natasha Trethewey "Self-Employment, 1970"

Blossoming like afterthought - Natasha Trethewey "South"

Each flower a surrender - Natasha Trethewey "South"

Holding the ghosts of generations - Natasha Trethewey "South"

Strain against motion - Natasha Trethewey "Three Photographs"

Like some distant Monday - Natasha Trethewey "Three Photographs"


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