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Slips from presence to memory - Joshua Bennett "Aubade with Insomnia"

The unrestrained fleet of bone - Joshua Bennett "Clench"

Swinging darkness into song - Joshua Bennett "Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"

Take my cue from the blizzard - Joshua Bennett "First Date"

Give myself away in shards - Joshua Bennett "First Date"

Shining bright as Lucifer's waistcoat - Joshua Bennett "First Date"

A leviathan with no proper name - Joshua Bennett "In Defense of Henry Box Brown"

Sharp enough to cut bone & soul - Joshua Bennett "Invocation"

The waltz of iron and wood - Joshua Bennett "Ode to the Equipment Manager"

A hunter made entirely of oil - Joshua Bennett "Ode to the Mascot"

The way anything buried aspires - Joshua Bennett "On Blueness"

When the law leaves a dream gutted - Joshua Bennett "On Blueness"

What is sureness to the shoreless - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"

Melt into mad, wet math - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"

A turf war with time - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"

In this house of lightning & dust - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"

This is how the hunted persist - Joshua Bennett "The Order of Things"

Dreamt of weightlessness & little else - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"

An entire career built upon leapfrogging elephants - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"

Giving out buckets as a kind of spiritual practice - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"

Without what most would call thought - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"

Whatever slight or malice born in silence - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"

Contraband or some secret knowledge - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"

All that kept us from drowning - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"

Drying freshly damp wisteria with black silk - Joshua Bennett "Owed to the Durag"

This odd, improbable life I hold to my chest - Joshua Bennett "Owed to the Durag"

Flight & failure contained within a single body - Joshua Bennett "Owed to the Durag"

Small & distinctly mortal forms of loveliness - Joshua Bennet "Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch"

Consider the garden of collards & heirloom tomatoes - Joshua Bennet "Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch"

All Newton's laws don't apply to us the same - Joshua Bennet "Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch"

No equal & opposite reaction to the everyday brawl - Joshua Bennet "Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch"

No body so beloved it cannot be destroyed - Joshua Bennet "Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch"

Of blood & saltwater prayer - Joshua Bennett "Praise House"

Toward the chaos he brought - Joshua Bennett "Praise Song for the Table in the Cafeteria Where All the Black Boys Sat Together During a Block, Laughing too Loudly"

The implicit sweetness of speed - Joshua Bennett "Preface to a Twenty-Volume Regicide Note"

40 acres & a jewel-encrusted orchid crown - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"

Unburied though we stay pursued - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"

The U.S. school-to-prison state's laser-like vision - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"

Any & all forms of predatory opulence - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"

That love us enough to break this language lengthwise - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"

Filled as it is with the bones of our fallen - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"

The world said die & you refused its refusal - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"

Wherever we point on a map of the measurable universe - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"

Faded into amber & archive - Joshua Bennett "The Sobbing School"

Like forgetting the face of the sea - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Little Brother"

A more perfect name for water - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Little Brother"

Gunfire would be our only warning - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Toy Gun"

The policeman's voice an aftershock - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Toy Gun"

During the years we grew tired trying not to die - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Toy Gun"

No small iron gods in our pockets - Joshua Bennett "Summer Job"

No machines to thread us into the invisible world - Joshua Bennett "Summer Job"

Passed entire mornings listening to the ceremonies of birds - Joshua Bennett "Summer Job"

In the rift between observation and dreams - Joshua Bennett "Summer Job"

Folklore filling the desolate lecture halls - Joshua Bennett "Summer Job"

As we traded one tradition for another - Joshua Bennett "Summer Job"

Quelling all prior conflict - Joshua Bennett "Teacher's Aide"

Lying to my escapist heart - Joshua Bennett "VCR&B"

Within your body's bladed frame - Joshua Bennett "X"

Every algorithm's heartbeat - Joshua Bennett "X"

All adjacent quantities bloom - Joshua Bennett "X"

Citing something age-inappropriate from Aristotle - Joshua Bennett "You Are So Articulate With Your Hands"

The embodiment of our desire for invention or care - Joshua Bennett "You Are So Articulate With Your Hands"

If my hands speak with conviction - Joshua Bennett "You Are So Articulate With Your Hands"


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