Potential Titles: Oliver de la Paz

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The dutiful belonging of atoms - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

How we relate the world through our skin - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

Brushed by a plum tree's wicked thorns - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

Praying through the meanwhiles - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

Remind us of our asymmetries - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

The way his face yields to the light - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

The way moments like this explode - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

Alive and cooled with a song that slides away - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

The blood red amanitas pushed out of the earth - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

Habitats don't bend to our aftermaths - Oliver de la Paz "Chain Migration II: On Negations and Substitutions"

The gamble of the recipe is salt and sweat - Oliver de la Paz "Chain Migration II: On Negations and Substitutions"

And stare long into the TV's ether - Oliver de la Paz "Chain Migration II: On Negations and Substitutions"

Walking through a forest filled with alabaster heads - Oliver de la Paz "Dear Empire [these are your temples]"

Mislaid all the best of you into us - Oliver de la Paz "Diaspora Sonnet Imagining My Father's Uncertainty and Nothing Else"

See all our old stitching come undone - Oliver de la Paz "Diaspora Sonnet Imagining My Father's Uncertainty and Nothing Else"

Flooded with unremembered names - Oliver de la Paz "Diaspora Sonnet 25"

Suture the silence behind them - Oliver de la Paz "Diaspora Sonnet 25"

Split time between metal and Tejano - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"

Gave everyone a chance at forgiveness - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"

Each word of a neighbor's argument - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"

And hold the book of wildflowers open - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"

Fly weightless as though nothing mattered - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"

The way a border on a map twists into thorns - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

We were footnotes on a charred parchment - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

Lost at the precipice of a war - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

Shifting on the hour in spliced histories - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

Because the country was ruled by swords - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

To flee because home wouldn't let us stay - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

Family lines drawn and redrawn into travelogues and diaries - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

The accident of understanding what it means to be X - Oliver de la Paz "Solve for X"

Put our ears to the earth to hear the rumblings - Oliver de la Paz "When Benny Agbayani Became a Met"

Watching the strike zone get smaller and smaller - Oliver de la Paz "When Benny Agbayani Became a Met"

Living rage beyond the break of the horizon - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"

Because the future drives on new tires - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"

The plateau piles everything you love back into dust - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"

Drive our pick through the mineral of our apprehensions - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"

Without stopping our breath of song - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"


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