Potential Titles: Sally Wen Mao

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A castaway in a city without shores - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Blows Out Sixteen Candles"

If I take my time machine back to sixteen - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Blows Out Sixteen Candles"

Sixteen wishes extinguish and burn - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Blows Out Sixteen Candles"

Who inherit my warnings, victories, and failures - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong has Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Cast one glance westward - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong on Silent Films"

Treachery in my movements - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong on Silent Films"

Saw my sisters in the sawmills - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong on Silent Films"

Lush throats throttled by nephrite - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway"

Slip into the diabolical roles I've played - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway"

The coldest winter since weather went live - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway"

Pale legs exposed to infernal snow - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway"

The spotlight flatters every flaw - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway"

My ovation is for the shadows - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway"

The applause is meant for the stars - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway"

Collect my germs and make a fountain - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"

Dirt's ammunition against discipline - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"

A city of fetid promise - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"

Our skin is rust and metal - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"

Dreamt the worst was over - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"

Fields of lilies sharper than razors - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"

Their pleas were like a river - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"

Snowblind with grief - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"

Drinks a vial of amnesia - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"

And access its truest aroma - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"

The urban sprawl swallowing her - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"

Got caught stealing a candy bar - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"

Trillions of atoms spinning inside her body - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"

Blueprint of urban catastrophe - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"

The bioluminscent waters of his youth - Sally Wen Mao "Nucleation"

Adorn the self to be adored - Sally Wen Mao "Nucleation"

Silent but silver-tongued - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"

Have worshipped so many lies - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"

The fragility of a porcelain bowl - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"

Recovering the silenced history - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"

All its ghosts still shudder through us - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"

In our libraries, in our bloodstreams - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"

Wore a smile only I could see - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"

Rush past the bewildered lives before us - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"

A belt of ghosts trailing after - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"

Where slain umbrellas travel across the Hudson River - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"

So ghosts can't dial me at midnight - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"

At midnight with the hunger of hunters - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"

An echo chamber behind her eyes - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"

Under this tunnel of endless shadows - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"

Of all that is extinct and oncoming - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"

Then I am not a stranger here - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"

Taunts you for the mileage of your solitude - Sally Wen Mao "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles"

And the sun spins us another lonely cycle - Sally Wen Mao "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles"

The tides quiver and the galaxies tilt - Sally Wen Mao "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles"

You'll wonder if this compass will ever change - Sally Wen Mao "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles"

The sun doesn't need more heat - Sally Wen Mao "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles"

Before the cliffs jag downward - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"

The color of the shore that welcomes - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"

The color of the roses that spy - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"

The counterfeit letters she sends to herself - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"

The sea that swallows our stories - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"

A chance to restore the color - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"

Forge a desert with my own arms - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"

The ocean that drowns the liars - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"

Follow bobcat tracks to the lake - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

Towers over its frail reflection - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

Stop showing off wounds to strangers - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

Some perverse shadow puppet flailing - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

Inside the theater of her brooding, restless heart - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

Catching up to the speed of rue and awe - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

What selves have we buried alive, what selves have we survived? - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

On a field of ghostly wildflowers - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

The cathedrals we've built out of sorrow - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"


Poet's bio at poetryfoundation.org.


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