Potential Titles: Saeed Jones

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Steals the sea from us - Saeed Jones "After Last Light"

My throat is the ocean now - Saeed Jones "After Last Light"

Coatless and a shirt of briar - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"

Refuse me morning and mourning - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"

To answer your rifle's last question - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"

A voice mistook for stone - Saeed Jones "Anthracite"

Through doors of dark matter - Saeed Jones "Anthracite"

Grey silk sound pulled out by hooks - Saeed Jones "Beheaded Kingdom"

Through my catacombs of marrow - Saeed Jones "Beheaded Kingdom"

Winter stars stitched into puddles - Saeed Jones "The Blue Dress"

Open to a sky of windblown herons - Saeed Jones "Boy at Threshold"

Fear this feathered dusk - Saeed Jones "Boy at Threshold"

Red is at the end of black - Saeed Jones "Boy Found Inside a Wolf"

Punching a hold to daylight - Saeed Jones "Boy Found Inside a Wolf"

A negligee of gnats - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Stolen Evening Gown"

A sleeping swarm of locusts - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"

Tears too are mistaken - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"

For a waltz with no partner - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"

This last night of Sodom - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"

Night made of locusts - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"

My half-eclipsed notes - Saeed Jones "Coyote Cry"

A path of hard, open mouths - Saeed Jones "Coyote Cry"

And the blow shatters you to sparks - Saeed Jones "Cruel Body"

Behind a door you can't open - Saeed Jones "Cruel Body"

Wades out into the blue hour - Saeed Jones "Cruel Body"

Their footprints burn holes in the sand - Saeed Jones "Daedalus, After Icarus"

Even the memory of your breath - Saeed Jones "Dirge"

Spine stitched to shadow's edge - Saeed Jones "Eclipse of My Third Life"

King of my beheaded kingdom - Saeed Jones "Eclipse of My Third Life"

A garden gated in April light - Saeed Jones "Eclipse of My Third Life"

My veins in every leaf - Saeed Jones "Eclipse of My Third Life"

Made of bats and blood-red gems - Saeed Jones "The Fabulist"

Shrieks sharp as broken champagne flutes - Saeed Jones "Grief #213"

The air escaping my throat's prison - Saeed Jones "Grief #213"

My ghost is my plus-one tonight - Saeed Jones "Grief #213"

Darkness mistakes me for sunrise - Saeed Jones "He Thinks He Can Leave Me"

A war burns at the edge of the map - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"

Makes note of battles - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"

In a house made of guns - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"

Embroidered sea at my feet - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"

This dusk between both of me - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"

In an hour colored tourmaline - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"

Mapping out hell with my feet - Saeed Jones "In Nashville"

Never an easy dream - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"

Watch him wrestle my shadow - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"

Wet black stones for pillows - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"

Tangled in the hair of willows - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"

The mountain's peak like a blade above - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"

In the language of sharp turns - Saeed Jones "Jasper, 1998"

When the air becomes crowded with want - Saeed Jones "Kudzu"

Answer my tendriled craving - Saeed Jones "Kudzu"

If I ever strangled sparrows - Saeed Jones "Kudzu"

Who waits for the moon to drown - Saeed Jones "Last Call"

The sound of teeth just shy of sinew - Saeed Jones "Last Portrait as Boy"

Each step farther into my own silhouette - Saeed Jones "Last Portrait as Boy"

The circle of wolves blinking gold - Saeed Jones "Last Portrait as Boy"

Clogged arteries of light - Saeed Jones "Lower Ninth"

Silence has never stopped me - Saeed Jones "A Memory"

Like the sky seeking justice - Saeed Jones "A Memory"

History has never stopped me - Saeed Jones "A Memory"

If the moon decided to hold its breath - Saeed Jones "Mercy"

Another acre gone to hell - Saeed Jones "Meridian"

Water won't answer our questions - Saeed Jones "Meridian"

Turns to mirage when touched - Saeed Jones "Meridian"

Room for your cry in my mouth - Saeed Jones "Nocturne: Beheaded"

Marauding me with meak [sic] mercies - Saeed Jones "Self-Portrait as Hereboy, Sethe's Dog in Beloved"

I'm still bandaged from your last love - Saeed Jones "Self-Portrait as Hereboy, Sethe's Dog in Beloved"

Dreamed you a plume of ash - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Great rush of wrecked air - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

In a city made of rain - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Each door, a silence - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Pigeons for hair, wind for feet - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Cursing with a mouth full of iron - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Furious at my pulse - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Shards of glass like misplaced stars - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

After the black bite of frost - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

The first hour in a life without clocks - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

To scatter the sun's reflection - Saeed Jones "Pretending to Drown"

The wreck of someone else's memory - Saeed Jones "Skin Like Brick Dust"

Then decades crashed to the street - Saeed Jones "Skin Like Brick Dust"

Two blocks beyond gravity - Saeed Jones "Skin Like Brick Dust"

Mistake yourself for shadows - Saeed Jones "Sleeping Arrangement"

Unclean under a back-turned sun - Saeed Jones "Terrible Boy"

Gasoline to the roots of the forsythia - Saeed Jones "Terrible Boy"

Handmade armor of bone - Saeed Jones "Terrible Boy"

I was a cobra's tongue - Saeed Jones "Thallium"

Survived on mouthfuls of hyacinth - Saeed Jones "Thralldom"


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