Potential Titles: Zaina Alsous

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A dream laden summer cadence - Zaina Alsous "An-Nisa"

Come inside my blue cocoon - Zaina Alsous "Being-Nothingness"

A curiosity the state disputes - Zaina Alsous "Being-Nothingness"

Never wanted to be a lava angel - Zaina Alsous "Being-Nothingness"

A lake of funerals - Zaina Alsous "Bird Prelude"

A volcano of whale songs - Zaina Alsous "Bird Prelude"

An algorithm for de-extinction - Zaina Alsous "Bird Prelude"

To dissolve the colony's Sun - Zaina Alsous "Bird Prelude"

A necklace of silent vowels - Zaina Alsous "Bird Prelude"

Hatching eggs of laughter - Zaina Alsous "bird survives the death of Nature"

Repairing an archive of unseen beams - Zaina Alsous "bird survives the death of Nature"

Melancholy improvising on form - Zaina Alsous "capture produces a series of remains"

Which eclipse will I trust? - Zaina Alsous "capture produces a series of remains"

To chase an orchestra of the dead - Zaina Alsous "cinematography"

Auctioned into bone notes - Zaina Alsous "Dead as a Dodo"

Melting into condensed rain - Zaina Alsous "Dead as a Dodo"

Watch the memory assemble me - Zaina Alsous "Description de l'Egypte"

A fiction of poppies and idolatry - Zaina Alsous "Description de l'Egypte"

The sibilant machine of SCIENCE - Zaina Alsous "Ibis"

The whistle of species place in a jar - Zaina Alsous "Ibis"

An engraving in the urn of my skull - Zaina Alsous "Ibis"

Eating raw fruit in a field of mustard - Zaina Alsous "A Non-Euclidean View of Backwards as a Warm Place to Be"

Horizon like a shallot in my palm - Zaina Alsous "A Non-Euclidean View of Backwards as a Warm Place to Be"

Tracing bloom to departure - Zaina Alsous "On having begun"

A theory of infinite beginnings - Zaina Alsous "On having begun"

A compilation of previously and almost - Zaina Alsous "On having begun"

The unpaid labor of angels - Zaina Alsous "On having begun"

Spiders in ceremony annotating the windows - Zaina Alsous "On having begun"

A smile that eats the mouth - Zaina Alsous "On Longing"

Elegant as marble in acid rain - Zaina Alsous "Reading Darwish in Vermont"

Evaporating into cypress - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"

A tendon of faith and escape - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"

To argue with God in context - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"

To carry a pall of secrets - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"

Days rotate parallel to prayer - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"

Rose water in black coffee - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"

Recurring pails of stones - Zaina Alsous "Species-Being free-write"

An archaeology of another possible future - Zaina Alsous "Species-Being free-write"

Out comes the broken lantern - Zaina Alsous "the subject of much debate"

Venus seems so kind from afar - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"

Seamed and charred into process - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"

Towards another incomplete hope - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"

Hope changes the outcome of language - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"

A misguided advertisement for new desires - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"

Waiting in line for ourselves - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"

The wrong side of a glass coastline - Zaina Alsous "A Theory of Birds"

Wanted love more than history - Zaina Alsous "A Theory of Birds"

Mimicking the sound of dusk - Zaina Alsous "A Theory of Birds"

Because I'm too busy being afraid of it - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

To ask the placenta for its numerical origin - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

To tell the dirt it belongs to you - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

Because it is convenient for the jobs - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

Language is a chain of accidents - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

A shadow that follows you like a dog - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

Flesh explained back to us as furniture - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

A coin, a debt owed to love - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

Take the echo seriously - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

Living is the plot to sing completion - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

A pearl dissolves into winter's mood - Zaina Alsous "Translator's Essay"

A portrait of iron and memory - Zaina Alsous "Translator's Essay"

A tendency of anonymous feathers - Zaina Alsous "Translator's Essay"

Under an evil-eyed fig tree - Zaina Alsous "Universe in which My Father Is a Poet"

The local jail is everywhere - Zaina Alsous "Violence"

Against the scarab of malachite - Zaina Alsous "Window Strike"

Some whispers refuse to translate - Zaina Alsous "Window Strike"


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