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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-02-01 05:37 pm

Potential Titles: Ari Banias

What's visible from inside a Brutalist building - Ari Banias "Curriculum"

What's visible alongside a nearly motionless canal - Ari Banias "Curriculum"

That soon splits in two directions - Ari Banias "Curriculum"

Whose filigrees gather soot as excess definition - Ari Banias "Curriculum"

Something classical and repulsive endures - Ari Banias "Curriculum"

The oxidized face of a statue of some goddess - Ari Banias "Curriculum"

Digitized in slight distortion on either side - Ari Banias "Curriculum"

Bruised tomatoes, nectarines so soft they're left for free - Ari Banias "Curriculum"

Tight rows of trees beside threadbare grass - Ari Banias "Fountain"

Three fingers rubbing imaginary fabric - Ari Banias "Fountain"

An anecdote whose contents have scattered - Ari Banias "Fountain"

The alarm that continues for hours - Ari Banias "Fountain"

Bumblebee at the threshold investigates the doorway - Ari Banias "Fountain"

I can almost imagine there are no consequences - Ari Banias "Fountain"

Across a wide sky staggered with chimneys - Ari Banias "Fountain"

Do you act more like the coin or the water? - Ari Banias "Fountain"

This bird sipping from roof puddles - Ari Banias "Fountain"

Except these clouds are not trying to symbolize anything - Ari Banias "Fountain"

Vulgar black felt stapled in the raised flowerbeds - Ari Banias "Fountain"

A repository, a consequence, a long sentence, an ongoing story - Ari Banias "Fountain"

Emitting an obscene light - Ari Banias "Fountain"

Black mildew streaking down the side - Ari Banias "Human Time"

A cloud and a plane pulled in opposite directions - Ari Banias "Human Time"

Between each hour and the next - Ari Banias "Human Time"

Days we take cover in like roadside brush - Ari Banias "Human Time"

Isn't rigidity a number's joy - Ari Banias "Human Time"

The dusk takes with it every detail - Ari Banias "Human Time"

No more branches, no more moon, no more clouds - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

Light glinting on no more water - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

Refuse to sing because the song is stuffed - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

The same translations as assigned - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

Whose turn is it to open-throated sing? - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

And what world's turn is it to be sung of - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

Who called again to say what's ugly? - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

The bodies we inherited and tried to slip out of - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

Pressing them together into finest dust - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

These little dun intelligences do chirp and flit - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

About our plastics and forgetfulness and bombs - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

Bombs of much unnumbered rubble - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

Bombs of reasonable fear of bombs - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

The erosion of whose turn it is to listen - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

A future where no one will look at it - Ari Banias "A Sunset"

As interesting as a word repeated until emptied - Ari Banias "A Sunset"

Announces the sun then puts it away - Ari Banias "A Sunset"

The flowers are diminished by the lens - Ari Banias "A Sunset"

Learned nothing from the streetlight - Ari Banias "A Sunset"

A thought unfolding across somebody's face - Ari Banias "A Sunset"

Meaning ruined pleasure and created it - Ari Banias "Tautology"

Lived through a gate that shrieked each time it opened - Ari Banias "Tautology"

The small clamors that drown out the one large clamor - Ari Banias "Tautology"

Something in the tree is arguing with the tree - Ari Banias "Tautology"

The nose-down fly on my floorboards - Ari Banias "Tribute"

What passes through the keyhole of a look - Ari Banias "Tribute"

Debts you're saddled with and debts you ride - Ari Banias "Tribute"

We try to keep the radiant capsule buried - Ari Banias "Tribute"

Tell them about my debts to your mind - Ari Banias "Tribute"

Word for home that could also mean journey - Ari Banias "Villagers"


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