Potential Titles: Tracy K. Smith

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Swarms of Officers to harass our people - Tracy K. Smith "Declaration"

A small reservoir of furious music - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"

Coax the night into being - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"

A skirt shimmering with sequins and lies - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"

Whose heels have notched and hammered time - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"

The voices scraping against the river - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"

Tossed into the ecstatic void - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"

Chords that stretch and bend - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"

Your two tangled souls - Tracy K. Smith "Einstein's Mother"

A fire-white ghost - Tracy K. Smith "Einstein's Mother"

Believe I am striving for glory - Tracy K. Smith "Everybody's Autobiography"

I find myself most alone - Tracy K. Smith "Everybody's Autobiography"

A monument of moon-white stone - Tracy K. Smith "Everybody's Autobiography"

Glistening inside raindrops or teardrops - Tracy K. Smith "Everybody's Autobiography"

Rippling infinitely into the distance - Tracy K. Smith "Everything that Ever Was"

Claiming a little piece of where we stand - Tracy K. Smith "Everything that Ever Was"

Bereft, but not vanquished - Tracy K. Smith "Everything that Ever Was"

Where my dreaming and my loving live - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"

A dance against hunger - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"

Reptiles drag night from their tails - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"

A rage of waves protects our horizon - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"

Which we would devour - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"

Legs and arms wracked with danger - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"

Strip each stalk of its stolen crop - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"

History is a ship forever setting sail - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"

Seek lives outside of speech - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"

Lie quiet as bedrock beneath - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"

Swagger up and down the shore - Tracy K. Smith "In Brazil"

In time to the raucous tide - Tracy K. Smith "In Brazil"

Life sears a path down the throat - Tracy K. Smith "In Brazil"

A deadly silent digging in - Tracy K. Smith "Mothership"

How little we had mended - Tracy K. Smith "An Old Story"

Brought on a different manner of weather - Tracy K. Smith "An Old Story"

Clean lines pointing only forward - Tracy K. Smith "Sci-Fi"

With its hard spine & dog-eared corners - Tracy K. Smith "Sci-Fi"

Eons from even our own moon - Tracy K. Smith "Sci-Fi"

Thanks to popular consensus - Tracy K. Smith "Sci-Fi"

Doubled over under greed - Tracy K. Smith "Soulwork"

To stare fire in the eye - Tracy K. Smith "Soulwork"

The rapture of stolen hours - Tracy K. Smith "Soulwork"

To dribble the nectar of evil - Tracy K. Smith "Soulwork"

The thin plume of cautious smoke - Tracy K. Smith "Soulwork"

Pierced suddenly by pillars of heavy light - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"

Unclasped and left empty in the center - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"

The angles of it scraping at each throat - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"

Shouldering past the swirling dust motes - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"

Watch it rise through our fallen - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"

Green to gold to blinding white - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"

A wild annihilating fright - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"

Holding back what clamored to rise - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"

Do this patient urgent work - Tracy K. Smith "[The will to see oneself as fragile]"

Through the maze of our suburban scrawl - Tracy K. Smith "[The will to see oneself as fragile]"

Kin and neighbors and nations adrift - Tracy K. Smith "[The will to see oneself as fragile]"


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