Potential Titles: Jamaal May

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Gathers a storm of questions - Jamaal May "As the Saying Goes"

Any storm in a drought - Jamaal May "As the Saying Goes"

The busy angles of my shoulders - Jamaal May "Ask Where I've Been"

Tornado of fists - Jamaal May "Ask Where I've Been"

A crooked city built of laughter - Jamaal May "Ask Where I've Been"

Abandon, feathers, and drums - Jamaal May "Ask Where I've Been"

Its iambic pulse of light - Jamaal May "Better Devices"

Fire for the siege - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

That folds steel like a flag - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

Fire for ancient reason - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

Compose a nocturne of cinders - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

War took our prayers - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

The names of the leaves before they change - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

A comet's tail disappearing - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

The streets of a forgetting city - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

If the flowers are taken into account - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

That plants and uproots - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

Tomorrow will be a tornado - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

On all our muddy graves - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

In the language you fear - Jamaal May "FBI Questioning During the 2009 Presidential Inauguration"

The temptation to become ash - Jamaal May "FBI Questioning During the 2009 Presidential Inauguration"

Protect every laugh inside - Jamaal May "FBI Questioning During the 2009 Presidential Inauguration"

As the sun surrenders again - Jamaal May "History as Road Trip from Detroit to Mississippi"

And pastel somethings bloom - Jamaal May "I Have This Way of Being"

A fist full of weeds that rise yellow - Jamaal May "I Have This Way of Being"

Needed a stage that fit - Jamaal May "Intake in the Ward"

The hollow timbre of any submerged god - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"

By the wizardry of your letter - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"

The way she commands water - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"

Corners small enough to swallow - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"

Can't be built out of ocean - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"

Poltergeists in the rooms of each other - Jamaal May "Love Poem Moving Back and Forth Across Glass"

Rattling cutlery with our absence - Jamaal May "Love Poem Moving Back and Forth Across Glass"

The precarious cliff of your collarbone - Jamaal May "Love Poem Moving Back and Forth Across Glass"

Jagged stones that were pillars - Jamaal May "Make Believe"

The way a hurricane breathes - Jamaal May "Megalophobia"

An elbow cracking the Earth in half - Jamaal May "Megalophobia"

A trap for what I don't say - Jamaal May "Mouth"

Looked for maps out of myself - Jamaal May "Ode to Forgetting"

Forgotten isn't the same as lost - Jamaal May "Ode to Forgetting"

Apologies to the moths - Jamaal May "Ode to the White-Line-Swallowing-Horizon"

Into the ocean-dark behind me - Jamaal May "Ode to the White-Line-Swallowing-Horizon"

Resented the sun's excess - Jamaal May "Per Fumum: Through Smoke"

Invisible in a blizzard - Jamaal May "The Spirit Names of Stolen Books"

Their shadows to keep me company - Jamaal May "The Spirit Names of Stolen Books"

As shadow pierced by sun - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"

Light parted by shadow-dance - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"

How lovely the ruins - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"

My nostalgia is a pyromaniac - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"

As if there were a dance left - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"

Find ourselves in the charred mirrors - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"

Picking my name out of the wind - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"

Involved in wanting more - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"

A siege does something like this - Jamaal May "Things That Break"

The craven infantry of roaches - Jamaal May "Things That Break"

A land of too much sleep - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"

May every ghost find you - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"

A violin's bridge you cross or burn - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"

Jagged with the previous conquerors' teeth - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"

Citizen of the binary mirror - Jamaal May "Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century"

Can't help but be the loudest ghost - Jamaal May "Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century"

Guilty of being hungry - Jamaal May "Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century"

Bridge of bone and intellect - Jamaal May "Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century"

The applause of a waterfall - Jamaal May "Water Devil"

A smile that nobody can use - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"

Stare in the mirror of his face - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"

Ask for the trinkets you've pilfered - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"

Which side of the wall we die on - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"

Make a metaphor for the empty - Jamaal May "Yes, I Know She's Dying"


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