James L. Maynard

Converging Remains

I.
               "tumbling, spinning"
               "another scrap of information"
"struggling horizontal"
"out of trim condition"
          "by a mere shell of a city"
               "sentinel"
"a small mountain range"
"monitoring cannot be trusted"
          "symbolic . . . rubble"
          "the world is worried"

          "cannot exist in"
          "isolation"
"elegiac demand"
"emblazoned vigil through tomorrow"

 

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II.      "concentrations"
     "metal shavings"
     "data-age mischief"
"the question may be moot"
                    "it remains unclear"
               -"the politics of the moment"
"practices worth replication"
                    "streetscape"
"a study in seeming contradiction"
"urbanized refuge"
"the playing field will never be leveled"
"perhaps even pristine"
               "industrial trappings"
               "admission of culpability"
          "discernible effects of a concrete problem"
               "paper you can break"

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III.
                    "stay in the quiet place"
     "a passing phenomenon"
"absorbs the gradually unfolding"
"just the elaborateness"
"palpable and inextricable"
"symbolic gesture"
"preserving the history"
               "underwater we are all equal"
                    "initial denials"
"acoustical insulation"
"disrupting the visible show"
          "a dangerous remedy"
          "no more than a dream"

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IV.
"gifts of questionable origin"
     "a kind of centrifuge"
     "predicting unintended consequences"
"emotional conduits"
"one's bearing lost"
               "series of textures and composition"
          "my icon, myself"
          "a shivery body"
          "sotto voce"
"hushed atmosphere"
"settling and separating"
     "the cavernous space is broken up"
"multiple permutations"
          "bark and extract"
          "what the day means"

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V.
          "cluttered habitat"
                    "of the Hours"
"paper, books"
"value systems"
                    "submerged wreckage"
                    "periodic letters"
"slivers" "falling into the world"
"thoroughly modern terrain"
"a slab of stone like bodies"
"tributaries"
               "dramatic testimony"
               "echoed on a billboard"
"flecks of peeling paint"
"sagging porches"
          "an oracular announcement"
                    "irrevocable"

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VI.
"inspired blues"
"an interested arrangement"
          "of Epitaphs"
               "insecurity"
                    "mind drift"
          "lack of human touch"
          "needs places for space"
"tone and projection"
"an easily reached destination"
"forgotten, repressed, or denied"
"making hasn't changed"
"beg to differ"
          "a single façade"
          "lurking in a sequence of results"
"distinctive architectural"
               "shiny as the full moon"
               "unfathomable"
"under glowering peaks"
"the blue runs off"
"one unalterable fact"

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VII.
     "odd bookish interests"
"from darkness punitive or curing"
               "into the mullions"
               "a sense of continuum"
"renewed" "script"
"just muddling along"
          "self-knowledge"
          "in the digital economy"
"fringes of a social carpet"
"flawed or forgotten"
                    "a borderland"
                    "purely in visual terms"
     " alienated subcultures"
"ghosts . . . outnumbered"
               "minimalist"
               "graft of all sorts"
"form and material"
"conflation of desires and anxieties"
               "the tension between"
"seemingly obvious dicta"
                    "inescapable"
                    "even though"

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