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A trickle of oranges in the snow - Ilya Kaminsky "Above Blue Tin Roofs, Deafness"

The feather on my tongue - Ilya Kaminsky "Alfonso Stands Answerable"

Fire from a match you never lit - Ilya Kaminsky "Alfonso Stands Answerable"

Her shout a hole torn in the sky - Ilya Kaminsky "As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy's Face with a Newspaper"

In my barbershop of thoughts - Ilya Kaminsky "Before the War, We Made a Child"

Snow pours out of the sun - Ilya Kaminsky "A Bundle of Laundry"

A ripped-out document of laughter - Ilya Kaminsky "A Cigarette"

Skewered with light - Ilya Kaminsky "Firing Squad"

Tell you what I know - Ilya Kaminsky "Firing Squad"

Breaking all their moments in half - Ilya Kaminsky "4 a.m. Bombardment"

The blue canary of my country - Ilya Kaminsky "4 a.m. Bombardment"

The four dimensions of breathing - Ilya Kaminsky "Galya's Toast"

These raindrops are my letters of recommendation - Ilya Kaminsky "Letters"

A battle worthy of our weapons - Ilya Kaminsky "Lullaby"

To make of silence a language - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"

Souls on crutches of bone - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"

Under the bare feet of their thoughts - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"

Inside the nostrils of searchlights - Ilya Kaminsky "Soldiers Aim at Us"

Made of stubbornness and a little air - Ilya Kaminsky "Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air"
Who danced wordless before God - Ilya Kaminsky "Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air"

Feel the pulse of the house - Ilya Kaminsky "That Map of Bone and Opened Valves"

With bright whiskey anthems - Ilya Kaminsky "Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle"

And let the law go whistle - Ilya Kaminsky "Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle"

Invisible house by invisible house - Ilya Kaminsky "We Lived Happily during the War"

Hundreds of old pianos forming a bridge - Ilya Kaminsky "What We Cannot Hear"

Since Noah was a sailor - Ilya Kaminsky "When Momma Galya First Protested"

In the mailboxes of the arrested - Ilya Kaminsky "When Momma Galya First Protested"

Which is the true curriculum of schools - Ilya Kaminsky "When Momma Galya First Protested"

A woman who speaks against silence - Ilya Kaminsky "While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses"

A good mile and a half of wind - Ilya Kaminsky "A Widower"


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