Potential Titles: Rasha Abdulhadi

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In a ship made of recycled parts - Rasha Abdulhadi "Advice on Love from an Astronaut with a Failing Memory"

Keep time with quiet hands - Rasha Abdulhadi "Advice on Love from an Astronaut with a Failing Memory"

Distracts us from the battle - Rasha Abdulhadi "El Condor y El Toro"

How the angle twists what we can know - Rasha Abdulhadi "El Condor y El Toro"

Sulfur match struck on vellum - Rasha Abdulhadi "Eleven Red Returns"

Pull the thread of my hair - Rasha Abdulhadi "find me again"

Ghosts stepped from dark corners - Rasha Abdulhadi "Lanternseed"

Blossoming into a head full of seeds - Rasha Abdulhadi "Lanternseed"

Only ashes to ornament the air - Rasha Abdulhadi "little bat"

Knows nothing of the bat’s wings - Rasha Abdulhadi "little bat"

i set my love out over an ocean of space - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"

measure your pace, keep time with quiet hands - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"

when no body can shove you off balance - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"

thin as a blade with an edge that smarts - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"

can feel your face like a crucial lever - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"

The residue we leave behind - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of ash"

Bare on the threshold - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of ash"

Caught in the stormstrike - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of ash"

The skin stretched over lifedebts - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of lightning"

Flame to lightning in your mouth - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of lightning"

Cleave the trunk of your reserve - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of lightning"

Cheat of time and heat and muscle - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

Wrung out cloth of all my salt - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

Poison in meal most lovingly made - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

Commander of first and final allegiance - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

By omission of love or boundaries - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

Wrecked on separate roads - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

Sweetness at sunset all alone - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

Imperial trove of stolen stories - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

Forgery of deeper meaning - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

Loses by refusing to play - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

Who slumbers solely in insomnia - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

you in your shades of blue - Rasha Abdulhadi "plum out of season"

The peaches at market are not yet true - Rasha Abdulhadi "plum out of season"

Thirst for a rapid, riper summer - Rasha Abdulhadi "plum out of season"

The weight of time we carry - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Find some flint in the heart left to light - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Pull air over embers of grief - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

To spend the coin of our lives - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Who untangle loss from creation - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

As if a siphon could drain an ocean - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Hear the holes when we sing - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

And snatched each soul back to flood - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Art bloomed from the ash of loss - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

The blistered blessing of surviving - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

The undefused bombs our bodies hide - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Though the house of sorrow be vast - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Give grief her rooms to stalk - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Guilt, that rent-free tenant - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Refuse them victory on this field - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Won’t donate the corpse of my dreaming - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Wherever the last domino of my body falls - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Wrap the last rose of faith - Rasha Abdulhadi "Quailing"

And bury that flower to ferment - Rasha Abdulhadi "Quailing"

Be conjured only by necessity - Rasha Abdulhadi "Quailing"

Sow strangeness where you pass - Rasha Abdulhadi "Quailing"

Even the trees are not blameless - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Lend their limbs to massacre - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Tendered to me for shelter - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

History's hollowed-out horrors - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Even retreats choose sides - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

In this gracious confrontation - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Under the sweet breath of branches - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Dreaming two nations' glory - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Complicity among the ruins - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Safe harbor at the point of a knife - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Can take a retreat from horrors - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

When even our retreats choose sides - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

A refuge built against two reckonings - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Every shelf complicity among the ruins - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Find safe harbor at the point of a knife - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

The dead who carry no scars - Rasha Abdulhadi "sirens and silence"

Sirens of so much human suffering - Rasha Abdulhadi "sirens and silence"

Who suture themselves in silence - Rasha Abdulhadi "sirens and silence"

Driven to remove your mask - Rasha Abdulhadi "small sips from big pitchers"

And sit there with no face - Rasha Abdulhadi "small sips from big pitchers"

Once immortal in the spring thaw - Rasha Abdulhadi "this bitter bud"

The thorn of you in every joint - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

This fragile boundary of terror - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

And catch you falling into trust - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

By which you reach for revelation - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

Falling through the generous doom of your mind - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

Every wildflower of your mouth’s meadow - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

Breathing against the tide of your breath - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

A memory of persimmon fermented - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

Voltage discharged fingertip to throat - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

Your theory electric on my skin - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

My lips against the nebula of you - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

Other songs you’ve forgotten - Rasha Abdulhadi "What Trauma Remembers About Us"

Their edges lost without the needle - Rasha Abdulhadi "What Trauma Remembers About Us"

The density of an uncoiled afternoon - Rasha Abdulhadi "who is owed springtime--"

Eaten by snakes and crocodiles - Rasha Abdulhadi "Young Adult Catalogue"

Reaching the edge of forests infinite - Rasha Abdulhadi "Young Adult Catalogue"

Gnarled knuckles undressed by erosion - Rasha Abdulhadi "Your Grandma Wishes I Wore Miniskirts"

A feast of family recipes - Rasha Abdulhadi "Your Grandma Wishes I Wore Miniskirts"

No way out of the holy well - Rasha Abdulhadi "ZamZam Baby"

The stitch stabbed into a future - Rasha Abdulhadi "—"


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