Potential Titles: Carl Phillips

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To at least go down singing - Carl Phillips "After Learning that the Spell Is Irreversible"

An ability to feel sorrow - Carl Phillips "Affliction"

Dreams that make each night restless - Carl Phillips "All the Love You've Got"

Walking toward the sound of water - Carl Phillips "All the Love You've Got"

The only rivers memory knows - Carl Phillips "All the Love You've Got"

Enough stars still visible - Carl Phillips "All the Love You've Got"

This cathedral in my head - Carl Phillips "And If I Fall"

Making from cricket-song and dying - Carl Phillips "And If I Fall"

Fate stakes the final claim - Carl Phillips "And Love You Too"

Across all things divine - Carl Phillips "And Love You Too"

Come from afar and faceless - Carl Phillips "And Swept All Visible Signs Away"

The relief of snowmelt - Carl Phillips "Anyone Who Had a Heart"

When I try remembering - Carl Phillips "Anyone Who Had a Heart"

Like broken kings - Carl Phillips "Anyone Who Had a Heart"

To have timed your arrow perfectly - Carl Phillips "Archery"

Of apples, victory, tangerines, and smoke - Carl Phillips "Archery"

Dreamed we were young again - Carl Phillips "Archery"

Trying to outstare the distance - Carl Phillips "Archery"

What the day must come to - Carl Phillips "Archery"

Loose notes on tragedy - Carl Phillips "As Easy to Cry as Not To"

Arrives before honesty - Carl Phillips "As for that Piece of Sundown You've Been Wanting"

Without the past's precision - Carl Phillips "As for that Piece of Sundown You've Been Wanting"

More still than a flooded meadow - Carl Phillips "As If Lit from Beneath, and Tossing"

Each face wears fear differently - Carl Phillips "As the Rain Comes Down Harder"

Versus those who attempted death - Carl Phillips "At Bay"

Catastrophe's jewel-studded tail - Carl Phillips "At Bay"

The damselflies pass as they would - Carl Phillips "Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm"

A point more steep in rot - Carl Phillips "Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm"

The way the present cuts into history - Carl Phillips "Back Soon; Driving--"

Revelation is not disclosure - Carl Phillips "Back Soon; Driving--"

Not the first piece of gentleness - Carl Phillips "Barbarian"

Recalling mostly the sea - Carl Phillips "Black and Copper in a Crush of Flowers"

Everything's somebody's history - Carl Phillips "Black and Copper in a Crush of Flowers"

How they died singing - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"

The one in the mind called doubt - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"

Competing forms of betrayal - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"

Less that shame exists - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"

As if the world were rumor - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"

A minor chord sparrows make with doves - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"

What makes pattern dangerous - Carl Phillips "The Blue Door"

Wasps settling into the juniper - Carl Phillips "The Blue Door"

Heartbreak like a bloodhound - Carl Phillips "Blurry Finally in Too Soon Each of Us"

Belief's true echo - Carl Phillips "Brace of Antlers"

Regret nowhere figuring - Carl Phillips "Brocade"

As gesture is memory's inverse - Carl Phillips "Brocade"

The dark shore of himself - Carl Phillips "Bronze Where Once the Blue Had Been"

Not noticing the leaves - Carl Phillips "Brothers in Arms"

Those slower, too-complicated numbers - Carl Phillips "Brothers in Arms"

To a life worth the hardness - Carl Phillips "But Waves, They Scatter"

In the surprise of woundedness - Carl Phillips "By Force"

The windfalls of my mistakes - Carl Phillips "Capella"

The field lays down its winded swords - Carl Phillips "Capella"

The unstable camaraderie of exiles - Carl Phillips "Captivity"

United solely in their desire - Carl Phillips "Captivity"

Promises in their not-yet-broken state - Carl Phillips "Captivity"

Could change the fact of daylight - Carl Phillips "Career"

Promises kept becoming apologies - Carl Phillips "Career"

And yet no hiddenness - Carl Phillips "Cathedrals"

Thunderheads like doomed zeppelins - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"

The way disruption can punctuate with meaning - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"

That at random carries them then refuses them - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"

Permanence in the form of a star - Carl Phillips "Chivalry"

The bracken of your invasive self - Carl Phillips "Civilization"

To the next extravagance - Carl Phillips "Civilization"

Whose every shadow is memory - Carl Phillips "Civilization"

Must only look like leaving - Carl Phillips "Civilization"

All the generosity of a mirror - Carl Phillips "Correction"

Remembering somehow a way through panic - Carl Phillips "Correction"

As if proof meant nakedness - Carl Phillips "Craft and Vision"

Despite the fact of water - Carl Phillips "Crossing"

At rest in a wind's disruption - Carl Phillips "Crossing"

Not that tears can't be song - Carl Phillips "Dangerous Only When Disturbed"

Depending on who's weeping - Carl Phillips "Dangerous Only When Disturbed"

Asleep beneath the willow's umbrella - Carl Phillips "Dangerous Only When Disturbed"

Hair and branches and dream - Carl Phillips "Dangerous Only When Disturbed"

The cool descent of the willow's branches - Carl Phillips "Dangerous Only When Disturbed"

Emptier of such distractions as fear - Carl Phillips "The Dark No Softer Than It Was Before"

Falling without motion - Carl Phillips "The Darker Powers"

Just behind my heart - Carl Phillips "The Darker Powers"

Some memory of having been seen - Carl Phillips "Deepest, Where the Water Looks More Green"

Ritual in the name of hope - Carl Phillips "Defiance"

With amethyst and reason - Carl Phillips "The Difference Between Power and Force"

A tamer of wolves tames no foxes - Carl Phillips "Dirt Being Dirt"

Also what the knife has opened - Carl Phillips "Discipline"

Neither history nor memory - Carl Phillips "The Distance and the Spoils"

Disclosure's a pretty flower - Carl Phillips "The Distance and the Spoils"

Against the snow of memory - Carl Phillips "Dominion"

Each contains its own dream - Carl Phillips "Electric"

Easier to bear than sorrow - Carl Phillips "Electric"

As if the sea could listen - Carl Phillips "Enough, Tom Fool, Now Sleep"

What's meant to be wind - Carl Phillips "Entire Known World So Far"

Bells on the collar of an invisible donkey - Carl Phillips "Entire Known World So Far"

A need that ruins - Carl Phillips "Erasure"

The way detachment can resemble confidence - Carl Phillips "Everything All of It"

The usual wrecked cathedral of the mind - Carl Phillips "Everything All of It"

The trumpet vine that grows up the ginko's trunk - Carl Phillips "Fall Colors"

Built of wickedness and joy - Carl Phillips "First Night at Sea"

As affection was never twilight - Carl Phillips "First Night at Sea"

Built from things too difficult to speak of - Carl Phillips "Fist and Palm"

The shape that luck mostly takes - Carl Phillips "Flight of Doves"

Rumor passing through suspicion's fingers - Carl Phillips "Foliage"

The fist of instinct - Carl Phillips "Foliage"

The fist through the branches - Carl Phillips "Foliage"

Come intending to do - Carl Phillips “For It Felt Like Power”

Untouched by regret - Carl Phillips “For It Felt Like Power”

Dream against dream’s return - Carl Phillips “For It Felt Like Power”

Fell unnoticed - Carl Phillips “For It Felt Like Power”

The myth of themselves - Carl Phillips “For It Felt Like Power”

Lay untouched by regret - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"

Sandbagging the river of dreams - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"

Some fall like empire - Carl Phillips "Forecast"

Until reduced to history - Carl Phillips "Forecast"

Forever half done departing - Carl Phillips "From a Bonfire"

And somehow more betrayed - Carl Phillips "From a Bonfire"

Mercy's a cliff - Carl Phillips "From a Land Called Near-Is-Far"

Tenderer hands than ours - Carl Phillips "From a Land Called Near-Is-Far"

Like a wish wasted - Carl Phillips "Ghost Choir"

The myths forged from memory - Carl Phillips "Ghost Choir"

The exit wounds memory leaves - Carl Phillips "Givingly"

As if weightless as dust - Carl Phillips "The Grass not Being Flesh, nor Flesh the Grass"

That were only the gulls - Carl Phillips "The Gristmill"

That begins as memory - Carl Phillips "The Gristmill"

Fear given consciousness - Carl Phillips "Heaven and Earth"

Wherever in the mind things go to be forgotten - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"

At the edge of that meadow inside me - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"

A bewilderment of black swans pulling - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"

Across a band of nightfall - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"

A friend you've learned not to trust entirely - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"

A truth more difficult to touch - Carl Phillips "His Master's Voice"

Whose unfolding brings to mind a road - Carl Phillips "His Master's Voice"

Toward the flower's throat - Carl Phillips "If You Go Away"

To each its own urgency - Carl Phillips "If You Will, I Will"

Never stop courting recklessness - Carl Phillips "If You Will, I Will"

Between spells of rain - Carl Phillips "Immaculate Each Leaf, And Every Flower"

Small voices in a field unfolding - Carl Phillips "In a Perfect World"

All the slaughtered chances - Carl Phillips "In Which to Wonder Flew a Kind of Reckoning"

A fairer form of stubborn - Carl Phillips "In This World to Be Lost"

It stammers in flames - Carl Phillips "In Which to Wonder Flew a Kind of Reckoning"

From the forge of Eros - Carl Phillips "Initial Descent"

One bright, flashing hammer of love - Carl Phillips "Initial Descent"

The space between wanting and having - Carl Phillips "Instructions Prior"

The ghosts in the walls - Carl Phillips "Interior: All the Leaves Shake Off Their Light"

Regretfulness is not regret - Carl Phillips "Is It True All Legends Once Were Rumors"

Just the weather of childhood - Carl Phillips "Is It True All Legends Once Were Rumors"

And at first look easy - Carl Phillips "Island"

Within view of a rough sea - Carl Phillips "The Last of Fanfare"

To stand in for reluctance - Carl Phillips "Last Night"

Ravens the precise color of sorrow - Carl Phillips "Leda, After the Swan"

Grief, like the dark, lifts eventually - Carl Phillips "The Length of the Field"

With all the clarity of bells - Carl Phillips "The Length of the Field"

Myth as it starts - Carl Phillips "The Life You Save"

Competing powers of revelation and distortion - Carl Phillips "Like So"

Apology not erasing cruelty - Carl Phillips "Like the Sweet Wet Earth Itself"

In cruelty's measureless wake - Carl Phillips "Like the Sweet Wet Earth Itself"

Evidence is not the same as memory - Carl Phillips "Like the Sweet Wet Earth Itself"

As if silence were a kind of spell - Carl Phillips "A Little Closer Though, If You Can, For What Got Lost Here"

And words the way to break it - Carl Phillips "A Little Closer Though, If You Can, For What Got Lost Here"

To the staggered weightlessness of sorrow - Carl Phillips "Meanwhile, and Anyway"

When discipline dreams - Carl Phillips "Meditation: On Being a Mystery to Oneself"

We betray ourselves first - Carl Phillips "The Messenger"

Like perennials you'd forgotten to expect - Carl Phillips "Moralia"

That cannot calm the past - Carl Phillips "Morning in the Bowl of Night"

Memory itself but a scar - Carl Phillips "The Need for Dreaming"

Divides prayer from absolute defeat - Carl Phillips "Next Stop, Arcadia"

Your turn to be the bonfire - Carl Phillips "Now in Our Most Ordinary Voices"

To eclipse and reinforce the past - Carl Phillips "Now that Nature Includes Oblivion"

One last bright chance to believe - Carl Phillips "Of California"

Sturdy enough box for containing rescue - Carl Phillips "Of California"

Start forgetting to ask - Carl Phillips "Of the Rippling Surface"

With a patience more human - Carl Phillips "Of the Rippling Surface"

Sway like suspicion - Carl Phillips "Of the Rippling Surface"

An angled argument against despair - Carl Phillips "On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing"

Only weeds by a better name - Carl Phillips "On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing"

Taking a horsewhip to a swarm of bees - Carl Phillips "On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing"

If I meet no mirrors - Carl Phillips "On Coming Close"

A fetish for being eaten alive and whole - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"

The desire to leave loneliness behind - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"

Let the nights unfurl before them - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"

Protection got confused with invitation - Carl Phillips "On Why I Cannot Promise"

When there's only starshine for a light to go by - Carl Phillips "On Why I Cannot Promise"

Compassion's shadow, pity - Carl Phillips "Overheard, Under a Dark Enchantment"

If torn means mendable - Carl Phillips "Permission to Speak"

The wayward mission of your body - Carl Phillips "Permission to Speak"

Those hydrangeas that I call forgiveness - Carl Phillips "Permission to Speak"

When a long forgetfulness lifts - Carl Phillips "Porcelain"

In the wake of transgression - Carl Phillips "Radiance versus Ordinary Light"

More fugitive than lost - Carl Phillips "The Raft"

More spent than stranded - Carl Phillips "The Raft"

Thought the truth would be a falcon - Carl Phillips "The Raft"

From a thicket all thorns - Carl Phillips "Ransom"

And how the stars swelled the dark - Carl Phillips "Ransom"

Silence as vast as it is particular - Carl Phillips "Reasonable Doubt"

Holding a mirror up to Apollo - Carl Phillips "Reasonable Doubt"

Know nothing of east or west or love - Carl Phillips "Refrain"

The ring of aspens that surround my fortress - Carl Phillips "Refrain"

When scattered in all its countless definitions - Carl Phillips "Refrain"

The beautiful colors of extinction - Carl Phillips "Regime"

As if watching the song itself - Carl Phillips "Riding Westward"

Like the storm-shook shadows of themselves - Carl Phillips "Rockabye"

Excerpts from paradise - Carl Phillips "Rough Surf in Moonlight"

Hammers of bronze thrown skyward - Carl Phillips "Rough Surf in Moonlight"

To understand hesitation both ways - Carl Phillips "Said the Horse to the Light"

Of a landfall won barely - Carl Phillips "Said the Horse to the Light"

To envy a wilderness - Carl Phillips "The Same in Sun as It Felt in Shadow"

This song I also call mystery - Carl Phillips "The Same in Sun as It Felt in Shadow"

Early in its slow unwinding to never again - Carl Phillips "Scattered Snows, to the North"

For no reason they were willing to give - Carl Phillips "Scattered Snows, to the North"

Of hunger's addictive and erosive powers - Carl Phillips "Scattered Snows, to the North"

The sky's edgeless statement about vastness - Carl Phillips "Searchlights"

Just the two dreams left - Carl Phillips "Self"

The stretched canvas of belief - Carl Phillips "Self"

As if that meant safety - Carl Phillips "Shall Want for Nothing"

Forgetting to stop asking - Carl Phillips "Shimmer"

Didn't intimacy mean courtesy - Carl Phillips "Since You Ask"

A spell against indifference - Carl Phillips "Sing a Darkness"

Gone steep with twilight - Carl Phillips "Sky Coming Forward"

Breaking of the storm inside me - Carl Phillips "Sky Coming Forward"

The ghosts of leaves - Carl Phillips "Snow Globe"

To shadow us in context - Carl Phillips "Snow Globe"

With the ghost I call failure - Carl Phillips "Snow Globe"

Fall asleep to the wind at night - Carl Phillips "So the Edge of the World"

Thought sleep meant rescue - Carl Phillips "So the Edge of the World"

More permanent than hard distraction - Carl Phillips "So the Edge of the World"

With forever having been a wind - Carl Phillips "So the Edge of the World"

The snow fell like hope - Carl Phillips "So the Mind Like a Gate Swings Open"

No different from any other song - Carl Phillips "So the Mind Like a Gate Swings Open"

To watch bees map a garden - Carl Phillips "Soft Western Light"

Think somehow loyalty weighs more - Carl Phillips "Something to Believe In"

Ripples the way oblivion does - Carl Phillips "Something to Believe In"

Unencumbered by moral valence - Carl Phillips "Somewhere It's Still Summer"

In dreams still considered dangerous - Carl Phillips "Somewhere, right now, a hawk"

At the exact center of sorrow - Carl Phillips "Soundtrack for a Frame of Winter"

Regrets find no shelter there - Carl Phillips "Soundtrack for a Frame of Winter"

The forest changes nothing - Carl Phillips "Soundtrack for a Frame of Winter"

In the name of distraction - Carl Phillips "Soundtrack for a Frame of Winter"

Pulled up wild from the sea - Carl Phillips "Spring"

The willed suspension of belief - Carl Phillips "Spring"

Keep a space for tenderness - Carl Phillips "Stamina"

Reach for yet another fistful of straw - Carl Phillips "The Steeper the Fall"

Have loved the mistake of it - Carl Phillips "Steeple"

After years of forgetting - Carl Phillips "A Stillness Between the Hunting and the Chase"

If attention is prayer - Carl Phillips "A Stillness Between the Hunting and the Chase"

All the ceremony of many wings - Carl Phillips "Storm"

Mist is the first thing to go - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"

Light's unshakeable escort - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"

If one wish begets a next one - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"

Only to be conquered by it - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"

Open nevertheless like hope - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"

Manifestation of letting go - Carl Phillips "A Summer"

Context for the river's progress or retreat - Carl Phillips "Sunlight in Fog"

History already mistaking itself for myth - Carl Phillips "Sunlight in Fog"

Wonder what fear is for - Carl Phillips "Surrounded as We Are, Unlit, Unshadowed"

Watery pallbearers heading seaward - Carl Phillips "Swimming"

Less like singing than remembering - Carl Phillips "Tell Me a Story"

At first mistake for gratitude - Carl Phillips "Tell Me a Story"

Beauty that attends oblivion - Carl Phillips "Tell Me a Story"

How to turn away from what's familiar - Carl Phillips "That It Might Save, or Drown Them"

Once loyal to a cruel master - Carl Phillips "That Part in the Music"

Strong enough to bring the stars down - Carl Phillips "This Far In"

Not the wilder doves - Carl Phillips "Thunder"

The way light includes everything - Carl Phillips "To a Legend"

Can rescue cricket song - Carl Phillips "To Autumn"

The apparent weightlessness of leaves - Carl Phillips "To Autumn"

To adore what's hidden - Carl Phillips "To Autumn"

On a wave of doubt mixed with fear - Carl Phillips "To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All"

The way all histories begin - Carl Phillips "To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All"

Only if refracted first - Carl Phillips "Torn Sash"

Like a memory of waves - Carl Phillips "Torn Sash"

A ramble of mystery, pattern, accident, and surprise - Carl Phillips "Troubadours"

Back when hurt was a feeling, still - Carl Phillips "Troubadours"

Permission to stop listening - Carl Phillips "Troubadours"

How close abundance is to excess - Carl Phillips "Troubadours"

Black according to some holiness - Carl Phillips "Tugging the Arrow Out"

As different goals require - Carl Phillips "Unbridled"

An oracle done hiding - Carl Phillips "Unbridled"

To catch a wind god breathing - Carl Phillips "Vikings"

What can leaves know of courtesy - Carl Phillips "Wake Up"

All the varieties of good fortune - Carl Phillips "Wake Up"

The broken laughter of the long abandoned - Carl Phillips "The Way One Animal Trusts Another"

Only three of the countless fates - Carl Phillips "The Way One Animal Trusts Another"

The better part of conquest - Carl Phillips "The Wedding"

More like resisting stillness - Carl Phillips "What I See Is the Light Falling All Around Us"

Winnowing my addictions - Carl Phillips "What I See Is the Light Falling All Around Us"

The light breaks like a rough sea - Carl Phillips "What They Did, Who They Did it With"

As to which wind to bow down for - Carl Phillips "What They Did, Who They Did it With"

Though leaves can know nothing - Carl Phillips "What They Did, Who They Did it With"

So little different from the light - Carl Phillips "What They Did, Who They Did it With"

To bloom from one dream to the next - Carl Phillips "When We Get There"

Of memory as a mansion of vast halls - Carl Phillips "Wherefore Less Lonely"

A labyrinth of dead ends and false openings - Carl Phillips "Wherefore Less Lonely"

Against having sworn to be kind - Carl Phillips "Wherefore Less Lonely"

Memory as a forest of leaves - Carl Phillips "Wherefore Less Lonely"

Up from the twists and thorns - Carl Phillips "Why So This Quiet"

The shadow-stitched perimeter - Carl Phillips "Why So This Quiet"

The shadow-stitched perimeter of childhood - Carl Phillips "Why so this Quiet"

So that the echo surprises - Carl Phillips "Wild Is the Wind"

The problem with weeping - Carl Phillips "Wild Is the Wind"

When the nights bloom with cricket song - Carl Phillips "Yes"


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