A Vast Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. "this bundle, this speck of a thing" (“Particles” by Cecilia Kennedy)
  2. 7. “pale to the point of ____________” (“Blue Boy” by Jack Morton)
  3. 11. "peering through the skylight at every ____ sign" (“Girl-Shaped” by Abigail Oswald)
  4. 12. “fresh hurts that would soon______” (“Blue Boy” by Jack Morton)
  5. 13. "highway _____ pointing / home" (“Still Life” by Mia Herman)
  6. 14. “pay / with a wad of singles and an _______” (“Gender Is a Performance, Darling” by James Ambrose)
Down
  1. 1. “our lives / folding together like _____ in the pot” (“Salt, Stars” by Josiah Nelson)
  2. 2. “America is an oil ________ slicked and sliding by in a riot of color” (“Every Train a Lantern” by Amanda Kooser)
  3. 3. “a backyard blanket / beneath the salt-speck _____” (“Salt, Stars” by Josiah Nelson)
  4. 5. “sip a BuzzBallz _________” (“Every Train a Lantern” by Amanda Kooser)
  5. 6. "an impressive collection of band ____" (“Girl-Shaped” by Abigail Oswald)
  6. 8. "little lashes fluttered / like fallen ______" (“Still Life” by Mia Herman)
  7. 9. “like a crowd cheering ______!” (“Gender Is a Performance, Darling” by James Ambrose)
  8. 10. "Eat Big ____" (“Particles” by Cecilia Kennedy)