Potential Titles: Barbara Jane Reyes

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The wind danced with the sea - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

Untame [sic] funnels and silver crested waves - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

How seafloor forced her fingers skyward - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

Freed her body from the silent, murky depths - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

Who was born of the rocks - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

Who was born of sea spume - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

Rooted itself in those rocks - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

A gleaming stone upon which the skyfolk spilled dark earth - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

The shores became the color of clear crystals and blood - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

I bring the sea tobacco leaves and fruit - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

Today as ever, she gives me but silence - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

Creator of daughters and dinner - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Creed"

Who suffered barely making ends meet - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Creed"

Who suffered giving everything unto everyone - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Creed"

While wailing women recited novena - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Creed"

If the game isn't going the way she'd like - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Creed"

Bent as light, as wind - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open"

Must tread slow - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open"

Her many hands reaching - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open"

The fire her bones remember - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open"

and no man guards its doors - Barbara Jane Reyes "calles de los dolores y trastorno de tension postraumatica"

what means are available to terminate - Barbara Jane Reyes "calles de los dolores y trastorno de tension postraumatica"

We hand passers-by silk ribboned poems - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

We fold poems into parking lots - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

Staple them to our neighborhood bulletin board - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

Weave them with daisies into vacant lot chain fences - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

Spray paint odes for boarded up storefronts - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

Set paper boat songs alongside egrets and geese - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

Westward paper airplane and origami crane poems - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

Because you said we should take words to the world - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

Honor movement in crescendos of text - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"

Studying maps drawn for the absurdity of navigation - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"

My lack of apology for what I am bound to to do - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"

An oyster on my tongue searches for the taste of ocean - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"

If I crave the secret corners of your city - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"

In series of circular coils extending outward - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"

I continue to harbor the swirls of galaxies - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"

Because I have mouthed your name in half-wish - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"

Outside the possibility of human causation - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"


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