Tracy K Smith

Question 1

The sky is a

Answer 1

dry pitiless white - Ghazal

Question 2

The wide rows stretch

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on into death - Ghazal

Question 3

Like famished birds, my hands

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strip each stalk of its stolen crop: our name - Ghazal

Question 4

History is a ship

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forever setting sail - Ghazal

Question 5

hooves nick away

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at rock. Our name- Ghazal

Question 6

The voices catch. No priest,

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No sinner has yet been taught our name. - Ghazal

Question 7

Our feet? Our name, our name, our name

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our fraught, fraught name. - Ghazal

Question 8

Imagining yourself

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a girl again- Joy

Question 9

Playing hospital

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with your sisters. joy

Question 10

The body is a

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Memory- Joy

Question 11

They’ve made the room dark and covered you with a quilt,

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though this is the south in summer- Joy

Question 12

These will be my medicine you tell them,

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taking a handful of the raisins that you love. - Joy

Question 13

The body is

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appetite- Joy

Question 14

You savour the kick,

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trusting this one need. - Joy

Question 15

But the body is cautious,

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does not want more than it wants. - joy

Question 16

When you close your eyes,

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I know you are listening to a dark chamber - Joy

Question 17

I know you are

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deciding - joy

Question 18

What do you

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believe in? - Joy

Question 19

The universe is

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a house party - tuhp

Question 20

napkins dried

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into knots- tuhp

Question 21

With radiowaves

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from a generation ago- tuhp

Question 22

Drifting to the edge of what

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doesn’t end- tuhp

Question 23

Like the air inside a balloon.

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Is it bright? Is it molten atomic? - tuhp

Question 24

We grind lenses to an impossible strength,

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point them toward the future - tuhp

Question 25

It sounds like the kind of party your neighbours

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forget to invite you to: bass throbbing- tuhp

Question 26

How marvellous youve come!

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.. seeing us they’ll know exactly what we mean - tuhp

Question 27

Of course. It’s ours.

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Is it’s anyone’s, it’s ours. - tuhp

Question 28

You go to

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the pain- ltpj

Question 29

Borders where they peer into

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your eyes as if to erase you. - ltpj

Question 30

Just taking it when they throw

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you in a room or kick at your gut- ltpj

Question 31

Taking it when a strong fist

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hammers person after person- ltpj

Question 32

Your camera

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blinks - ltpj

Question 33

Bodies blown open

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like curtains- ltpj

Question 34

Boys brandish plastic

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guns with TV bravado- ltpj

Question 35

The dance of wind in a

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valley of dirt- ltpj

Question 36

All the junk that rises up

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… into newly formed windows and walls- ltpj

Question 37

Who can say the word love when everything- everything

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pushes back with the promise to grind itself into dust?- ltpj

Question 38

But a way to kid ourselves into thinking we might last

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if trust is just another human trick that’ll lick its lips and laugh as it backs away? - ltpj