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A dark geography of need - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Affirmative Action Babies"

Transmutable as a mollusk - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Affirmative Action Babies"

As if the moon had unraveled - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Another Epitaph for Nino"

Carryout and unwrapped gifts - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Another Epitaph for Nino"

Lurks mercurial in the blood - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "As in ... Afro-Pessimism?"

The perimeter of our preoccupations - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "As in ... Afro-Pessimism?"

First hearing the siren's song - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Between Work"

Stitched our little nest of silence - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Between Work"

Fabric gone threadbare about him - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Black Dragons"

Music coming undone - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Black Dragons"

Electricity beneath the skin - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Black Dragons"

Your dollarstore deities - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Black Dragons"

Hums and ticks like a washed penny - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Curiosities"

To dissolve an empty hour - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Curiosities"

Just a dirty shade of yellow - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "DeBarge"

Move until the ocean turns - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Delfonic"

A rustle of names flooding my breath - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Delfonic"

Your eyes are gold-leaf & reflection - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Delfonic"

How many thousand moons - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Dog Star Rising"

Built for terror and self-sacrifice - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Doo-Wop"

This blade I ride on - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Estrella @ Noon"

A taste of helium in the veins - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Featuring Lonette Mckee as Sister"

If the anvil seeks restitution - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Fred Williamson Stars as 'The Hammer'"

Marched barefoot through the alleys - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"

An economy of dust - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"

A low-pressure system in the abdomen - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"

His quarter of spoiled blood - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"

And rust began to bleed through - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"

Hammers the already awestruck - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Line of Reason"

So many garlands of blood - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Line of Reason"

The wind burns the grasses bare - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Line of Reason"

Find yourself on the outside of Freedom - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Line of Reason"

Completely outside of gravity - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Midnight Special"

The mathematics of prophecy - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Midnight Special"

Less celestial with each swallow - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Midnight Special"

Not unlike Lot's wife - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "No More Birminghams"

Your work-a-day Orpheus - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "No More Birminghams"

Some dawn infused with honey - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "On Becoming River Rat, Fat-Tongued and/or Finding Your Once Pretty Body at the Park, Full of Holes"

The air is a red drum - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Other Women's Children"

How he knew I was running - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Other Women's Children"

And the trees lean away - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Other Women's Children"

Those hours outrunning ghosts - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Pacman"

Poetics of debt and redemption - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Place Your Bets"

Bright and bitter geometry - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Place Your Bets"

Some heartsick caustic titan - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Raising Hell"

What's Atlantis without the water - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Somebody told me we got LA"

Your share of disaster - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Somebody told me we got LA"

Shaping another lonely god - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Strawberry"

Stitch lightning to shadow - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Strawberry"

Tartarus stands undisputed - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Tar Baby"

Scattered by Hector's dogs - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Tar Baby"

The Gorgons weep blood - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Tar Baby"

A search light through the wind - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Tar Baby"

Wheeling ourselves golden - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "This Bitter Earth"

My eyes yoked to a blank space - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "This Bitter Earth"

Hand-sewn and set to memory - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Wall"

The dim lit avenues of the mind - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Wall"

Mortgaged the brightest corners - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Wall"

Within the many courtyards of the body - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"

Across that high court of the skull - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"

Like another steamrolled peony - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"

Alcohol as sweet as honey - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "When Miss Lucy Sings"

The secret ambition of the sun - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Worry the Rosemary"


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