Potential Titles: Khaled Mattawa

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Not all kinds of wisdom console - Khaled Mattawa "Beatitudes

Somewhere beyond faith and grace - Khaled Mattawa "Before"

The footprint of logic lost - Khaled Mattawa "Before"

Deduction is howling at an oncoming storm - Khaled Mattawa "Before"

Only dust and the hum of the interstate - Khaled Mattawa "Before"

Billions of snowflakes in between - Khaled Mattawa "Before"

The way loss befriends lament - Khaled Mattawa "Constance Song"

A fog heavy with wings - Khaled Mattawa "Constance Song"

Seeds planted among rows of song - Khaled Mattawa "Lyric"

As if following a maddened gull - Khaled Mattawa "Malouk's Ode"

The starlings recite the zodiacs - Khaled Mattawa "Malouk's Qassida"

On the bridges to those slippery worlds - Khaled Mattawa "Malouk's Qassida"

The water behind a thousand mirages - Khaled Mattawa "Now That We Have Tasted Hope"

After we've reached the ends of darkness - Khaled Mattawa "Now That We Have Tasted Hope"

A seed that fell from a bird's flight - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

Thinks of the hands that made them - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

Roots sending it deeper into the dark - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

Sends you to self-ignited forests - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

The thought writes itself like yeast - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

Fastened by the measure of limitation - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

Locusts wrap the sun in gauze - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm of Departure"

Made of stardust and spider thread - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm of Departure"

The difference will be a road - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm of Departure"

Speak the body's thrift - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm Under Siege"

Sustained by a candle flame - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm Under Siege"

Speak the rumble of my pulse - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm Under Siege" [2]

A gleaming lake haunting your thirst - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm Under Siege" [2]

Words of wheat across years of salt - Khaled Mattawa "Revisiting Hekale"

On behalf of a thousand justifiable causes - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"

An ocean brow-beaten by a river - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"

Invisible webs that trapped ghosts - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"

Enough air to live on - Khaled Mattawa "Season of Migration to the North/Northwest"

A degree in a circle inside a void - Khaled Mattawa "Season of Migration to the North/Northwest"

Days like scented leaves - Khaled Mattawa "Season of Migration to the North/Northwest"

Blazing from vanity's lungs - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

To a future of mindless rain - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

A whim that ordains blood - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

The water stolen from our wells - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

Seeking light from earth's core - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

Without such turbulent hope - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

Hear birdsong as prayer - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

Toward some ripe, sweetened pause - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

In the dark of your creation - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

These knots of unsorted dreaming - Khaled Mattawa "Trafficker Monologue"


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