Potential Titles: Peter Balakian

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A fig leaf against a smashed wall - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

Lizards snaked around the calendar - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

The dead are with me in my kitchen - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

They play a trombone in my heart - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

They tambourine the light on the wall - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

Curled up like scared cats in the reeds - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

What's ghostlier than gray morning winter light? - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

Candle-smoke curls around my sight - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

Past bulldozers and trucks pouring tarmac - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

Piles of sumac and coriander - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

The air on fire under him - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

The red clay of Macon dusting his bones - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

In the yard the bittersweet is drying up - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

The way memory deepens with light - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

The heart going up in flames - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

Survived the worst that humans do - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

Not the wind I hear - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"

An archipelago of starlings - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"

Night coming like wet - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"

Speaks through your hollow carved wood - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"

As the mountains glaze the sun - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"

Hear the bad news kiss the wind - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"

Spilling in the white noise of my head - Peter Balakian "Waiting for a Number"

Floating mirrors with unidentified objects - Peter Balakian "Waiting for a Number"

American questions spilling in sunlight - Peter Balakian "Waiting for a Number"


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