Potential Titles: Patricia Smith

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A machine's steel tear - Patricia Smith "Boy Dies, Girlfriend Gets His Heart"

Reluctant hosannas - Patricia Smith "Building Nicole's Mama"

Numb to our bloodied histories - Patricia Smith "Building Nicole's Mama"

Questions in the swirled sky - Patricia Smith "The Dawn of Luther B's Best Day"

Blunt slivers of larger promises - Patricia Smith "8 a.m., Sunday. August 28, 2005"

Toward separate songs - Patricia Smith "The End of a Marriage"

How dare the water belittle my thirst - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"

A crime behind my teeth - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"

Console myself with small furies - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"

Unravel the world for no reason - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Thursday, August 25, 2005"

Croon in every screeching hue - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Thursday, August 25, 2005"

Shadow in everyone's throat - Patricia Smith "Gettin' His Twang On"

Dripping the repeated roses - Patricia Smith "Giving Birth to Soldiers"

Scrubbed clean of war - Patricia Smith "Giving Birth to Soldiers"

Toward rumored sun - Patricia Smith "Inconvenient"

First generation brick - Patricia Smith "It Had the Beat Inevitable"

A reason to crave shelter - Patricia Smith "Katrina"

Could shine above hurting - Patricia Smith "Listening at the Door"

Something worse than rain - Patricia Smith "Man on the TV Say"

Irritated by the moon - Patricia Smith "Mississippi's Legs"

Grateful for the sleeping sun - Patricia Smith "Mississippi's Legs"

Of heat and no stars - Patricia Smith "Mississippi's Legs"

Long cool wisps of glimmer - Patricia Smith "Mississippi's Legs"

Patched with prayer and dust - Patricia Smith "Now He's an Etching"

Dawn tangled with my dust - Patricia Smith "Only Everything I Own"

Any sentence the sun chants - Patricia Smith "Prologue-- And Then She Owns You"

The color stunning your tongue - Patricia Smith "Prologue-- And Then She Owns You"

Pretends to remember to be listening - Patricia Smith "Prologue-- And Then She Owns You"

And makes you drink rain - Patricia Smith "Prologue-- And Then She Owns You"

Thick with lying - Patricia Smith "Remembering to Sing"

Earthquakes that grew pliant - Patricia Smith "Sacrifice"

The poet's slow remembering hands - Patricia Smith "Sacrifice"

Into a thousand skins - Patricia Smith "Siblings"

Against a city's flat face - Patricia Smith "Siblings"

Flailing on a wronged ocean - Patricia Smith "Siblings"

Aware of the weight again - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"

And blood-frosted cake - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"

Hallows your blind obsession - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"

Bewaring that gate again - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"

Blue enough to rouse ancestors - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"

When the sacrament cools - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"

Cling to the potential in the dark - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"

Streets so bare they grow voices - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"

Beguiled by the moon's lunatic luster - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"

Its most mapless lost cause - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"

Besieges me with bright - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"

Harbingers of hard wisdoms - Patricia Smith "10 Ways to Get Ray Charles and Ronald Reagan into the Same Poem"

The dim wattage of time - Patricia Smith "10 Ways to Get Ray Charles and Ronald Reagan into the Same Poem"

But the heart can't see - Patricia Smith "10 Ways to Get Ray Charles and Ronald Reagan into the Same Poem"

The roots of thirst - Patricia Smith "10 Ways to Get Ray Charles and Ronald Reagan into the Same Poem"

Thanks to the loud religion of wind - Patricia Smith "To Little Black Girls, Risking Flower"

Risk lurks in every inch of soil - Patricia Smith "To Little Black Girls, Risking Flower"

To unfurl, terrify, sparkle with damage - Patricia Smith "To Little Black Girls, Risking Flower"

Merely a million angels - Patricia Smith "To 3, No One in the Place"

A steady tongue and half a dream - Patricia Smith "To 3, No One in the Place"

The lie I've decided to hear - Patricia Smith "To 3, No One in the Place"

Turn your beseeching to vapor - Patricia Smith "Up on the Roof"

Too thin to hold tomorrow back - Patricia Smith "Voodoo II: Money"

The insistent perfume of plain water - Patricia Smith "Voodoo VIII: Spiritual Cleansing & Blessing"

Threaded with lightning and hurt - Patricia Smith "Voodoo VIII: Spiritual Cleansing & Blessing"

Scared barren at your very notion - Patricia Smith "What Betsy Has to Say"

To feed your ravenous eye - Patricia Smith "What Betsy Has to Say"

But secure in bone - Patricia Smith "What Was the First Sound"

Wind found its color - Patricia Smith "What Was the First Sound"

Of fevers unleashed - Patricia Smith "The World Won't Wait"


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