Potential Titles: Husk

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The curled husks of yesterday's warmth - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, because you tell me to, I begin again"

Those who only view the husk - Tommaso Campanella "XXXVI. Against Hypocrites" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Amber husk fluted with gold - H.D. "Sea Poppies"

Empty as the husk of a locust in drought - Martin Espada "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances"

Husks whence the kernel slips - Eleanor Farjeon "In the Oculist's Anteroom"

Open my eyes to the husk of morning - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

The shriveling husk of a yellowing moon - Angelina Weld Grimké "Dusk"

From the husk of dusk I shake the stars - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Dead husks that rustle through her hands - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Corn Husker"

Like mustard-seed rolls out of the husk of death - D.H. Lawrence "War-Baby"

Corn husk and quiet jubilee - John McCarthy "Just Outside Owasso"

Started husking corn at dawn - John McCarthy "On and Off Route 130, Collinsville, Illinois"

Over the roofs a mantle of husked sun - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Cleaves through the husk of things - John Oxenham "Don't Worry"

With a husk of mould and rust - W. Theodore Parkes "The Ghosts of Hampton Court"

Thrown husk of a moon - Adrienne Rich "Darklight"

Through the husk of darkness thrown - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"

With barren husks and harvesting of dreams - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

A cold curiosity regarding the husk they've left - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Fretted with husks of men - George Soule "Solitude"

Fruitless husk and fugitive flower - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Scattered husks of silence - Arthur Sze "The Glass Constellation"


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