Potential Titles: Kiki Petrosino
Apr. 1st, 2011 03:33 amWander 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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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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