Potential Titles: Major Jackson

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Their brother sleepwalking in a narrow hallway - Major Jackson "Addiction"

Screaming humbug at dried bits of onion - Major Jackson "Addiction"

For fear of triggering a heart attack - Major Jackson "Addiction"

Hums a little Scottish ballad about time - Major Jackson "Addiction"

Continue your travels in your cardboard world - Major Jackson "Addiction"

But the skin is an obstacle course - Major Jackson "Designer Kisses"

Where we are inescapably consigned - Major Jackson "Designer Kisses"

Tourists keeping the views new - Major Jackson "Designer Kisses"

Our own fonts of adoration - Major Jackson "Designer Kisses"

We're laid out like liquid timepieces - Major Jackson "Designer Kisses"

Each other's exercise in perpetual enchantment - Major Jackson "Designer Kisses"

That beach in us that is untranslatable - Major Jackson "Designer Kisses"

Each ridge practicing an oration of scale and crest - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"

A cyclone in my spirit led to divorce - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"

Gave darkness an echo of control - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"

Finding steadiness by the prop of a page - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"

Then felt resurrection in a vestige of water - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"

Such have I come to gauge my own screaming - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"

The wakes carry memories of battles - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"

I am a tributary of something greater - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"

Then I will end my reenactments of flying - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"

If you lean down to smell a painted trillium - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"

Away from your wounded mountains - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"

Who mothered your love of death? - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"

Give me an ancient grove and a conversation by a creek - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"

Charms to salve my griefs - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"

Stealing light from a flash in the sky - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"

It's just that you are carrying a tainted clock - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"

As the planet Mercury would allow - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"

Reemerged out of the murder of light - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"

Golden gates to an unforeseen heaven - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"

Like sea waves eating a coastline - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"

To tally my suspicions from a distance - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"

Pollinating the white face of the moon - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"

The island of my fears - Major Jackson "Let Me Begin Again"

To bring into play that fragrant morsel of rhetoric - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"

What bread wrappers reflect of our hunger - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"

Blue crystals frothing on marble front steps - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"

The garden of old men playing checkers - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"

Hopscotch squares painted new in the street - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"

The pitter-patter of feet landing on rhymes - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"

The jump ropes' portentous looming - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"

Squares of sugar flattening on the tongue - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"

Candy bars with names you didn't recognize - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"

Trying to ascend to a dominion foreign to you - Major Jackson "Mighty Pawns"

Loud timbales and drums blasting down - Major Jackson "Mighty Pawns"

The checkered squares of his poverty and anger - Major Jackson "Mighty Pawns"

The boulevard is full of my steps - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

The sky is full of my thinking - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

The ticking clocks in Vermont sway back and forth - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Sweeping up my eyes and my tattoos and my metaphors - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

The great paragraphs of dust - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Which also carry motes of my existence - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Their smiles have given me freedom - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Freedom which is a crater I keep falling into - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Makes me appear to those who think I've disappeared - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

War makes people disappear like chess pieces - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Prisons turn prisoners into movie endings - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Turns my arms and legs into branches of oak - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Pressing further into the mysteries - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Scouring for the bitter smell of control - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

I hold him in my mind like a chalice - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

When we talk about limits, we disappear - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

A shrug of a life in sacred language - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

My mind is a ravine of yesterdays - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

I wear September on my face - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Breath bursting to explosive fog - Major Jackson "Selling Out"

The moon's hushed excursion - Major Jackson "Selling Out"

Their susurrus as the churning of wonder - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"

The fate of the land is the fate of man - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"

Rested in the dignity of the Great Blue Heron - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"

Envied the painted turtle sunning on a log - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"

Modeling how to navigate dynasties of snow - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"

Survives in both forests and imaginations - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"

The dark hands of developers and myths of profits - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"

To renew the sacred contract of live things - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"

Standing in the way of the human storm - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"

A festival of collaged laughter - Major Jackson "Spain"

Our dark harbors finding level - Major Jackson "Spain"

When the decayed apples of an orchard amass beneath its trees - Major Jackson "Thinking of Frost"

Whose stalks will soon give way to a harvester's blade - Major Jackson "Thinking of Frost"

Nor exhibit the propriety of the polite - Major Jackson "Thinking of Frost"

Will never soothe the pagan in me - Major Jackson "Thinking of Frost"


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