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Wander among the silver asparagus - Kiki Petrosino "Afterlife"

The same jar of strawberries and mint - Kiki Petrosino "Afterlife"

A spill of storybook umber - Kiki Petrosino "Approaching the Smith Family Graveyard"

Your private handful of acorns - Kiki Petrosino "Approaching the Smith Family Graveyard"

Which woods pertained to glory - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"

Measuring the crinolines of leaves - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"

Slipped through blades of rain - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"

The beetle with its carapace of sun - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"

Half her face tangled in the trees - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"

Tongues & yarns of fire - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"

Curled deep in her rookery - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"

A lungful of gold I can keep - Kiki Petrosino "Confession"

Your small breath troubles the flour - Kiki Petrosino "Confession"

Dreamed of quilts stuffed with bees - Kiki Petrosino "Confession"

Draws a fine grid over the past - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"

Searches for slugs of amethyst - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"

An elegant verticality of sound - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"

More than a fixed container - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"

Against the solemn register of his losses - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"

Follow the dark blue blades of kale - Kiki Petrosini "De Jure Sanguinis" [excerpt]

The flat dials of sunflowers leading back to speech - Kiki Petrosini "De Jure Sanguinis" [excerpt]

Love translated you across an ocean - Kiki Petrosini "De Jure Sanguinis" [excerpt]

The ancestral body splits into water & seeds - Kiki Petrosini "De Jure Sanguinis" [excerpt]

A series of sonic knots - Kiki Petrosino "The Departure"

My skull expands in recognition - Kiki Petrosino "The Departure"

By black doll or briar thorn - Kiki Petrosino "Doubloon Oath"

Old maid or dreadnought - Kiki Petrosino "Doubloon Oath"

Died in the pith of August - Kiki Petrosino "Elegy"

In a welter of bells & holy water - Kiki Petrosino "Elegy"

Each bird a tiny fist of time - Kiki Petrosino "Elegy"

Sealed closet of the human face - Kiki Petrosino "Essay in Architecture"

With sunbeams settling in - Kiki Petrosino "Essay in Architecture"

Sharpens over a dominion of seeds - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"

Draw your wedding ring in mulch - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"

Over the hooks & buttons of sun - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"

Your body sealed shut in the light - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"

Pain coiled in the drywall - Kiki Petrosino "Farm Book"

Marooned by empty chairs - Kiki Petrosino "The Garden"

Where brown angels hovered - Kiki Petrosino "The Garden"

Unraveling the mystery of herself - Kiki Petrosino "The Garden"

Some ghosts are my mothers - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

Herons wearing the moonrise like lace - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

Some of my ghosts are planets - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

Spiraling deep in the dusk - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

With their belts of colored dust - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

Not queens, but ghosts - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

Wearing the moonrise - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

In the dusk of my body - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

Appear in battalions of charm - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

The notes of my glasshouse erudition - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

How the great thorn trees wept - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Remember how light dawned in chapters - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Our garments soaked in promissory rain - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Their fruits of salt & wood - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Within those snake-bright grottoes - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Gem of empty air - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Brilliant among violets - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

His green shadow condenses - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

That pool of slow gold scraped down - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Camelot will not stay - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

For the silence in his speech - Kiki Petrosino "I Married a Horseman"

Tall smoke of his shadow - Kiki Petrosino "I Married a Horseman"

Coiling into thickets of sharp weeds - Kiki Petrosino "In Louisa"

In some time before remembrance - Kiki Petrosino "In Louisa"

Wore a suit of woven water - Kiki Petrosino "In Louisa"

The king's instruments burn my hands - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"

The king's stairs burn my feet - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"

To honor the sun's penumbra - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"

Over the white pellet of noon - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"

All colors have veins full of neon - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"

Tasting honey on my teeth - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"

My life as the glass king - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"

Dozens of hot vinyl hearts - Kiki Petrosino "Lament"

Do not weep in your way of ghosts - Kiki Petrosino "Let Me Tell You People Something"

A soft deer browsing the woods - Kiki Petrosino "Little Gals"

Strands of willow in my pelt - Kiki Petrosino "Little Gals"

Pressing their hundred eyes - Kiki Petrosino "Little Gals"

Midnight seeps from the cracks - Kiki Petrosino "Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1770-1863"

Slow pulp of arithmetic - Kiki Petrosino "Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1770-1863"

From the matrix of Jefferson's imagination - Kiki Petrosino "The Maiden"

Our Magic 8-Ball fortune - Kiki Petrosino "The Maiden"

The shadow I can't quite catch - Kiki Petrosino "The Maiden"

Her face a glass zero - Kiki Petrosino "Maria"

In her language of radial burn - Kiki Petrosino "Maria"

Between us a ravel of birds - Kiki Petrosino "Maria"

Holding the rain our mouths - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"

The dreams keep our wishes walking - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"

Stones worn smooth with patience - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"

In transparent loops of dug air - Kiki Petrosino "Monticello House Tour"

Narrow as daybreak - Kiki Petrosino "Monticello House Tour"

Orchards alive in the parlor - Kiki Petrosino "Monticello House Tour"

Drew your time in prudent proportions - Kiki Petrosino "Monticello House Tour"

My blood is a zone of dispute - Kiki Petrosino "N/Ought"

Snags on my nexus of doubts - Kiki Petrosino "N/Ought"

Each step blessed but slant - Kiki Petrosino "New South"

I fill my plate with rain - Kiki Petrosino "Nocturne"

Opened the door to the fairy house - Kiki Petrosino "Nursery"

At the oak's black ankle - Kiki Petrosino "Nursery"

The strange tea still warm - Kiki Petrosino "Nursery"

High time to consider beginning - Kiki Petrosino "Ought"

Where insects jumped in starry arcs - Kiki Petrosino "Pastoral"

A greenhouse I entered alone - Kiki Petrosino "Pastoral"

Burned in my skin like a stone - Kiki Petrosino "Pastoral"

But never reach the freedom shore - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"

Can't trace the arc of my tears - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"

Climb into the sinking dark - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"

A moral constellation of strawberry seeds - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"

This universe is someone else's calculus - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"

A moonbeam in the moral firmament - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"

Roasted & packed like a warm thought - Kiki Petrosino "Post-Apocalyptical"

The contours of each ancestral gene - Kiki Petrosino "The Prince"

Continents merged & drifted - Kiki Petrosino "The Prince"

More than twenty thousand ancient stars - Kiki Petrosino "The Prince"

Your life lined up like azaleas - Kiki Petrosino "Prophecy"

Your life unfolding in air - Kiki Petrosino "Prophecy"

I poured water & stars - Kiki Petrosino "Prospera"

She dreamed in the cradle I dug - Kiki Petrosino "Prospera"

That dark garnet of a husband - Kiki Petrosino "Prospera"

Waltzing in her wedding gown of wire - Kiki Petrosino "Prospera"

My old terror stabs me in the neck - Kiki Petrosino "Purgatorio"

My great morning of wrath - Kiki Petrosino "Purgatorio"

Something drags me with fear teeth - Kiki Petrosino "Purgatorio"

Twists away from its neat trellises - Kiki Petrosino "The Question"

Spirals around my losses - Kiki Petrosino "The Question"

Held candy eggs of logic - Kiki Petrosino "Scarlet"

She multiplies in gold - Kiki Petrosino "Sermon"

Let her multiply in gold - Kiki Petrosino "Sermon"

If she'll crown me with thunder - Kiki Petrosino "Sermon"

Strange mountain in late bloom - Kiki Petrosino "The Shop at Monticello"

Wept till the world looked blue - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"

A shade of stifled grief - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"

Confined within cells of bark & wood - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"

The stem of your body unspooled - Kiki Petrosino "Study Abroad"

Sealed jars sweating clear gems of condensation - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"

White blood appearing from warm air - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"

Revealing the curved arc of our shared Milan - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"

A kind of crying which sealed me to such realms - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"

How much of my fondness for any place is water - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"

Water stilled & bound to darkness - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"

Sweep the precincts of ourselves - Kiki Petrosino "Thigh Gap"

The rooms between each rib - Kiki Petrosino "Thigh Gap"

Shining in our net of nerves - Kiki Petrosino "This Is How We Feed the Animals"

Track them with our bone dice - Kiki Petrosino "This Is How We Feed the Animals"

When the egg of sleep will not break - Kiki Petrosino "This Is How We Feed the Animals"

Sweet pea twisted through my hair - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

Spun deep into the quilt - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

A resonance of thrumming spruce - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

Count the hushed electrons blooming - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

Thunder making promises - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

Doling seeds & ant to nobody - Kiki Petrosino "Voice Lessons"

A nexus of language & feeling - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"

The invisible arpeggio of a hummingbird's wing - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"

Easy games for a spirit - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"

Attach itself to some elemental source - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"

Prospero warned me against walking alone - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"

A visitor at some ancient ceremony - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"

My affections refused to become tender - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"

Like parrots from an opera - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"

From an opera over the earth - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"

Filmed over with moss-roses - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"

Woody herbs burning our tongues - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"

Wrangling life from the dirt - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"

The warlocks of winter are dead - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"

To keep the calliope of dreams from sounding - Kiki Petrosino "Young"

While the feverish branches chafe - Kiki Petrosino "Young"

With its buried corkscrew of hate - Kiki Petrosino "Young"


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