Potential Titles: Charles Rafferty

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To make sense of these billion leaves - Charles Rafferty "An Adulterous Spring"

God as he ransacked the world - Charles Rafferty "An Adulterous Spring"

Except for me all men are liars - Charles Rafferty "Advice for Beautiful Daughters Entering a World of Scoundrels"

They move well in only one direction - Charles Rafferty "Advice for Beautiful Daughters Entering a World of Scoundrels"

Cry beneath the majesty of 70,000 stars - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"

Underneath a hailstorm of light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"

Could starve in this impoverished light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"

What we need after so many bone-bright days - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"

More substantial than their own joy - Charles Rafferty "Blackbirds"

His fingers on fire and welded to pain - Charles Rafferty "Catena"

A line of brake lights blazing - Charles Rafferty "Daylight Moon"

Orbited by sharks, hurricanes and depth - Charles Rafferty "Daylight Moon"

At the fountain of unquenchable desire - Charles Rafferty "A Demonstration of How One Thing Leads to Another"

The air that will be between us - Charles Rafferty "Drift"

Silence and the expectation of sirens - Charles Rafferty "Ellipses"

Three darts thrown over a cliff - Charles Rafferty "Ellipses"

Time to blow out the stars - Charles Rafferty "A Farewell to Poetry"

A footnote to someone else's grandeur - Charles Rafferty "Forecast"

Like arrows tipped with moths - Charles Rafferty "Futility"

Has torn a hole in the weather - Charles Rafferty "Golf Course Moon"

Sweeping the dark from my pillow - Charles Rafferty "Golf Course Moon"

A song that keeps just ahead of your footfall - Charles Rafferty "Grackles"

In its cradle of dead bells - Charles Rafferty "Hotel Bible"

To mark the place of salvation or surrender - Charles Rafferty "Hotel Bible"

Guided by what burns - Charles Rafferty "Insomnolence"

Winter waiting for a meadow - Charles Rafferty "Mal Evans Counting"

A gnat in the air of greatness - Charles Rafferty "Mal Evans Counting"

To taste what his veins had hidden - Charles Rafferty "The Man Who Bled Wine"

Give me the deep-rooted weeds - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with African Violets"

Nothing beautiful belongs to us - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with African Violets"

Float like blossoms of dust - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with Wanting Something"

Magnetized for small disasters - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with Where We Live"

Using dynamite and metal claws - Charles Rafferty "Quarry"

Insisting that stars are possible - Charles Rafferty "Reflection"

Everything hidden returns in force - Charles Rafferty "Resumption"

Your voice was different there - Charles Rafferty "Snowfall After Hearing Hard News"

Following the turns a frozen creek - Charles Rafferty "Snowfall After Hearing Hard News"

A stone wall smothered by what fell - Charles Rafferty "Snowfall After Hearing Hard News"

Equidistant between the open doors - Charles Rafferty "Two Pianos"

And every puddle repeats it - Charles Rafferty "Two Pianos"

The anniversary of some future sadness - Charles Rafferty "Unnoticed"

The discordant breath of the risen - Charles Rafferty "The Untuned Piano"

Cages of words have dissolving bars - Charles Rafferty "Words"

Language is a prison that fails - Charles Rafferty "Words"

When a tongue attempts to pronounce the dead - Charles Rafferty "Words"


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