Potential Titles: Jake Skeets

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moonlight perched above the town - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"

the earth shines black in the sirens - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"

northward fire twists around the shrublands - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"

Drenched between the hours - Jake Skeets "Anthropocenic"

When water undresses into tar sands - Jake Skeets "Anthropocenic"

Narrow miracles and answers set to stone - Jake Skeets "Anthropocenic"

Siphon doubt from his throat - Jake Skeets "Buffalograss"

In between the letters are boots crushing tumbleweeds - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

Go for the foul with thirty seconds left - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

Gray highway veins narrow - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

Dollar bills for his index and ring fingers - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

The sky places an arm on the near hills - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

An owl has a skeleton of three letters - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

water and sun race every infinite evening - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"

winter with its obsessed wind - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"

each spring that see storm after storm - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"

pasqueflowers open their palms to straight rain - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"

Holdover from last season's wilds - Jake Skeets "If Fire"

Bursts into dandelion seeds - Jake Skeets "In the Fields"

Mud water puddles along enamel - Jake Skeets "In the Fields"

Milk vetch, tumbleweed, and sticker bush - Jake Skeets "In the Fields"

Beneath the sumac, yarrow, and bitter water - Jake Skeets "In the Fields"

A generator station opens its eye - Jake Skeets "Let There Be Coal"

Her stories coiled in warp and wool - Jake Skeets "Let There Be Coal"

Bring in the coal that dyes our hands black - Jake Skeets "Let There Be Coal"

and the night turns over a millennia - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

deserts build water so drink the lightning - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

velvet ants and paper wasps testify - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

sandstone bones are left long under sage - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

atmospheric heat to storm and swallow - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

a city that too builds its water from fly ash - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

the cactus wren finished the lightning - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

thorns in the inches of light sunsets have - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"


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