Potential Titles: Jericho Brown

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Like to identify themselves with lions - Jericho Brown "Aerial View"

A giraffe beats a lion's ass every day - Jericho Brown "Aerial View"

Power under a quilt that won't unravel - Jericho Brown "After Avery R. Young"

Unaware of the earth moving beneath - Jericho Brown "Another Elegy [This is what our dying looks like]"

And wait all winter to eat - Jericho Brown "Cain"

Pull pink from green - Jericho Brown "Cain"

Start on one side of the day - Jericho Brown "Crossing"

Leave ourselves available to surprise - Jericho Brown "Deliverance"

Of prayer against the grasses - Jericho Brown "Duplex"

Light in my jaundiced mouth - Jericho Brown "Flower"

That far terrain between Promise and Apology - Jericho Brown "Ganymede"

A single anthem of blood - Jericho Brown "Good White People"

With splinters for handles - Jericho Brown "The Hammers"

A right to the fire in her hands - Jericho Brown "Heartland"

Every last word is contagious - Jericho Brown "Heartland"

Absent as what fire leaves behind - Jericho Brown "The Interrogation"

No sky here allows for rain - Jericho Brown "The Interrogation"

What light Saturday sent - Jericho Brown "Labor"

Repeating invocations pure and perfect - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"

Drinking from the bloody river - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"

And taste a stain like blood - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"

Dear singing river full of my blood - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"

Every goodbye a lie - Jericho Brown "Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park"

Carries the weight he chose - Jericho Brown "Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park"

The viral geography of an occupied territory - Jericho Brown "The Microscopes"

Wake without an alarm telling them - Jericho Brown "'N'em"

Kept a scandal in my pocket - Jericho Brown "Obituary"

Spent what light Saturday sent - Jericho Brown "Odd Jobs"

And pray for the chance to say please - Jericho Brown "Odd Jobs"

Ruined by an ever-bitter extremity - Jericho Brown "Of the Swan"

Hail from a blind sky - Jericho Brown "Prayer of the Backhanded"

At the height of hopeless touching - Jericho Brown "Psalm 150"

No use for your tears - Jericho Brown "Riddle"

The dances that made them their money - Jericho Brown "Reunion Tour"

A gift someone had to die for him to use - Jericho Brown "Reunion Tour"

Lost in the forest of we - Jericho Brown "Stake"

My memory the only noise - Jericho Brown "Stay"

Whatever narrow miseries I make - Jericho Brown "Taken"

To bloom against the will of the sun - Jericho Brown "The Tradition"

Because we understand shadows - Jericho Brown "Trojan"

My black anger made red - Jericho Brown "A Young Man"


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