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But I mistook the sky for an iris - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Where the map edges blister, and the compass wasps - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Entered at the northern horizon - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Dutiful but unwooed by chisel and bench - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Contracts scribbled in fig sap - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Watching Ariadne ungold time - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

What awe is there in earthen labyrinths? - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Wax molds itself sublime - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Light refracts my name in dialect only moths comprehend - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Where trees chance to become constellations - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Flies past with the heart of a clock - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Zeus is a silver kite tethered to Olympus by harp strings - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Bliss is a body absconding - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Warp speed toward a dwarf star - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Those depths matter less - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Searching for sun's shadow - Airea D. Matthews "Descent of the Composer"

Inevitable to forget - Airea D. Matthews "etymology"

Conjuring that ghost I honor - Airea D. Matthews "etymology"

Free of known enemy - Airea D. Matthews "etymology"

Has no wings to flee - Airea D. Matthews "etymology"

Fine-tuning the orchestra of lies - Airea D. Matthews "From the Pocket of His Lip"

Up from shadow water - Airea D. Matthews "HERO(i)N"

Starts one way to end another - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"

How seed turns to leaf regardless of its earth - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"

The thought inside my head blossoms into a hyacinth - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"

Dreams, thought's pretend cousin - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"

We, who pull breath, confuse death's irony - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"

Praise to razed skylines & ruins - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

To whatever replaces the horizon - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

To id's fragile shards & ego's fringed edge - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

Satellites that couldn't be coaxed to Earth - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

Dreams in bodies that won't hold a lie - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

Beauty that doesn't suffer rules - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

To the seven ecstatic hallelujahs - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

Every earthworm's bristle & every seraph's six wings - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

Entwined in a songwaltz of welcome - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

Praise to all who rejoice in becoming - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

Warring gods vying for last words - Airea D. Matthews "Psyche on Prozac"

Time, that immaculate housekeeper - Airea D. Matthews "Psyche on Prozac"

Their darkened portion of forever - Airea D. Matthews "Psyche on Prozac"

A black and wicked door - Airea D. Matthews "Rebel Prelude"

As if light were the remedy - Airea D. Matthews "Sekhmet's Conceit"

Only one sun-rust afternoon - Airea D. Matthews "Sexton Texts a Backslider After Breaking Lent"

Drink from blind lakes - Airea D. Matthews "Sexton Texts a Dead Addict's Daughter During Polar Vortex"

Wheels and bone strike - Airea D. Matthews "Sexton Texts a Dead Addict's Daughter During Polar Vortex"

Our honeyed marriage bed in the meadow - Airea D. Matthews "Temptation of the Composer"

You were deaf to my footsteps - Airea D. Matthews "Temptation of the Composer"

I tiptoed backwards toward our door under twisted reeds - Airea D. Matthews "Temptation of the Composer"

Out where pasture led to brackish waters - Airea D. Matthews "Temptation of the Composer"

And red-hot mists rose from quartz - Airea D. Matthews "Temptation of the Composer"

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