Potential Titles: Joshua Bennett
Feb. 1st, 2010 09:42 pmSlips 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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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"
Poet's Wikipedia page.
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