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Claws on the heart's tin roof - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"

Cat claws on the heart's tin roof - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"

Locomotive running off the rails - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"

Hostage to the dark's slant dream - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"

A blue moon for an instant caught - Cynthia Zarin "Blue Vase"

A white egret under a waterfall - Cynthia Zarin "Conversazione"

Her lariat of bone unfolding - Cynthia Zarin "Faun"

To what we thought was the end - Cynthia Zarin "Faun"

Carrying too many things - Cynthia Zarin "Flowers"

All the beauty and sorrow of my life - Cynthia Zarin "Flowers"

Walking up inside the lilies - Cynthia Zarin "Flowers"

A whale made of sky - Cynthia Zarin "The Impulse Wants Company"

The whales sing their beautiful warnings - Cynthia Zarin "The Impulse Wants Company"

A space carved from shadow and air - Cynthia Zarin "The Impulse Wants Company"

The perimeter left by your absence - Cynthia Zarin "Japanese Poems"

Rain crocheting moss from mist - Cynthia Zarin "Meltwater"

The rain rubbing out their shadows - Cynthia Zarin "Meltwater"

Sulfur on the pines' crooked limbs - Cynthia Zarin "Meltwater"

Wind a lariat of leaves - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks I: Metaphysick for the New Year"

As if to reckon absence out of air - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks I: Metaphysick for the New Year"

The night unfolds tomorrow's news - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks: III. Mid-January"

A triad now become a square - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks: V. A Game of Chess"

And every molecule sequined - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks VIII: Talking About It"

Whose petitions wreak more havoc - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks IX: Months Later"

That my ribs might make a belfry - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks XI: Cathexis"

Jibing the night's storm-battered prow - Cynthia Zarin "Mirror"

An echo climbing Eurydice's stair - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History III: The Gone World"

Threading time's slit-eye needle - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History: III. The Gone World"

The scorpion inside a cage of flame - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History IV: At Home"

Every moment's a time bomb - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History IV: At Home"

Your halo full of whirring bees - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History IV: At Home"

Orion's arrows pinning fallen stars - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History:IV. At Home"

But for a shadow crossing your path - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

A murmur of some long-ago breath - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

When the tide rose to meet the twilight - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Even then slipshod with the truth - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The balustrade's tipped ladder tracking infinity - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Tipped ladder tracking infinity - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The hermit crab who keeps me company - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Their meteor go-cart running on a firecracker - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The eye of the world opens and shuts - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Just past vision's humming line - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Rolled up the map of Angers - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The winter smell of carnations - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

If Chronos comes to Hecate's door - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Wreathed with lashing tails - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Nets a flustered treble note - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Sunset's skinned knuckle try at holding fast - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Drinks smoke from an hourglass - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The eye of the world opens - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Every breath disturbs the dreaming portraits - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Bartered forty summers for black pearls - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Star-crossed diamonds on the coffee cup - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

An origami house on fire - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Folds an origami house on fire - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Routes and rivers set ablaze - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

In the kitchen of the dragon king - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The curling paper serpent sheds his printed skin - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

A cracked snow globe whose magic pool drips serum - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The bull butting his maze of twigs - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Baboon rattling the bedroom door - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Drawing water rings on the ceiling - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The wind's fugue tripling her internal rhythm - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Whose ripples whet the air her horses reined - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Held small birds in air until they sang - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The sky's aria after weeks of rain - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Mercury monogrammed with fever - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Fall is summer's bronze wing - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Boot lifted above a rainbow puddle - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The dune bowling down meteors - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Fatal hours scored by falling timber - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Ghostwriting the low-tide mark - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Heaven's geometry is hesitation's proof - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Scarecrow punting at the moon - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The dreamy seer of Athens and her apertifs - Cynthia Zarin "Ouija Board"

A siren song turned pennywhistle - Cynthia Zarin "Ouija Board"

Keeping the ospreys from the chimney - Cynthia Zarin "Ouija Board"

Tracks of brown and gold across the tarmac - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

The most treacherous moment is the turning - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

In the mind's cool barely open eye - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

A splatter of opals - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

Hollowing out the day - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

A set of moving mirrored shadows - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

The rain sluices down the bent azaleas - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

Acres of cloud bound - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

Beneath the umbrella of the roof - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

The long needles of latitude and longitude - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

The mill wheel turning the sleeve of the sky - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

The horizon's wishbone snaps - Cynthia Zarin "Still Life (For Rose)"

Your hawk feather a weathervane - Cynthia Zarin "Still Life (for Rose)"

Each hour a gilt thread spool - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

The hour's arrow never misses - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Every departure's an elopement - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

The horizon scored by talons - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

In the ultraviolet palace of the Mermaid King - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Cuts the Day-Glo sun to pieces - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

The shy cat fiddling while Rome sizzles - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Spoon mirror flipping us upside down - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

The thorny crowns of buried trees - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

A candelabra for the spiders' silvery halo - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Scavenged from the winter beach - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Marionette running on the brain's dark marrow - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Tungsten for the fireflies' freeze tag - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Let me go from here to anywhere - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Its sunlit reins bucking at before and after - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

The spindle puts the moon to bed - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday"

The pause between the thunder and the bridge - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday"

Three goats balking at the bridge - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday"

A lasso fetching the moon from the water - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday"

Each step a rope bridge hung in the air - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday"

The tilted abacus of stars - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday VII (The Dream)"

Cloak held fast by Psyche's brooch - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday X: Case Sensitive"

In the picture the fog had drawn - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: The Fogbow"

A ribbon of cold in the leaves - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Fragment"

A soap doll coming to life - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Fragment"

Pressed against the still silver sky - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Letter in Fog"

Pulled from the fog by a fishing pole - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Letter in Fog"

A negative developed in mercury - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Letter in Fog"

Like a starfish pulled from the fog - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Letter in Fog"


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