Potential Titles: Alison Swan

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Scarlet needle threaded with birdsong - Alison Swan "After an Elder Was Found in the Woods, Dead from a Self-Inflicted Gunshot"

Gave their last blood to birds - Alison Swan "After Reading The Late, Great Lakes"

Gather forest litter into cloaks - Alison Swan "After Reading The Late, Great Lakes"

The pauses between beams of searchlights - Alison Swan "Another Coast"

Into the lemon light of morning - Alison Swan "Aubade"

Rolled silent with somnolent fish - Alison Swan "Before the Snow Moon"

When shores clicked with frogs - Alison Swan "Before the Snow Moon"

Awakened by a great horned owl - Alison Swan "Before the Snow Moon"

Brimming with unuttered words - Alison Swan "Catalogue"

My chest too small to hold the blossom - Alison Swan "Catalogue"

The tree that's ready to wait for its forest - Alison Swan "Courage"

Dragging decades of concrete - Alison Swan "Detroit"

Plant vegetables in a parking lot - Alison Swan "Detroit"

See the limits of metaphor - Alison Swan "Fire"

All the weight of spun sugar - Alison Swan "A House in the Country"

Disturbed enough molecules to jostle me - Alison Swan "A House in the Country"

Playing through the essential air - Alison Swan "In Medias Res"

Cicadas for a soundtrack - Alison Swan "In Medias Res"

The forest where the owl rides - Alison Swan "Lake Effect"

Ghosts hovering like hawks - Alison Swan "The Language of Field Guides"

Between ditches of sumac - Alison Swan "The Language of Field Guides"

Assembles according to some fierce green fire - Alison Swan "Lifeboat"

Sole witnesses to the vigil - Alison Swan "Lifeboat"

Crows shout down from the canopy - Alison Swan "The Old Days"

As the crows harass an owl - Alison Swan "The Old Days"

Silent in her home oak - Alison Swan "The Old Days"

The ones that steal starlight - Alison Swan "One by One"

The sleep of mollusks - Alison Swan "Report from the End of the Twentieth Century"

Barracudas hang in the water and watch - Alison Swan "Sand Key"

A night still vibrating with crickets - Alison Swan "Self-Serve"

Evidence of traffic and sandhill cranes - Alison Swan "Signs"

Umbrella caught on hemlock twigs - Alison Swan "Snow"

Watching the slippery elm made new - Alison Swan "Some Things I Needed to Know"

Watched over by a murder of crows - Alison Swan "There Is Always This"

Of motion so minuscule and new - Alison Swan "There Is Always This"

A herd of elk flows over the land - Alison Swan "True Story"

Their own river of beating hearts - Alison Swan "True Story"

The beach freezes footprints in place - Alison Swan "Wish"


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