Potential Titles: Pair
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somethingdarkerGod makes us in pairs - Kaveh Akbar "Ultrasound"
Every peril paired with its opposite - Mary Jo Bang "The Raven Feeds Reynard"
Fractious as a pair of cowboy boots - Erin Belieu "As for the Heart"
Many a pair that yet cannot agree - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
The sun and moon to pair his brilliance - "The Ch'u Tz'u: The Lord Among the Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson
Two dragons between a pair of river serpents - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Lord of the River" transl. by Burton Watson
Four dividing into two scavenging pairs - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
A pair of shears cutting countrysides into shapes - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"
With a pairing incremental as this winter's passing - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Thought has a pair of dauntless wings - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"
Wear through seven pairs of shoes - Theodora Goss "Seven Shoes"
A pair of sevens standing in the rain - Conrad Hilberry "The Double Flail or Double Hook"
A pair of stars, faint pins of light - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
And our paired silhouettes are waiting for us - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Time is a pair of lungs laboring - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
And a pair of moments after - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Bean-Stalk"
Eight pairs of ostriches in harness - Marianne Moore "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'"
A pair of painstakingly clean hands - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
A pair of empty swing sets - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"
With nothing but the right pair of hands - Ollie Schminkey "The First Rule of Buoyancy"
A pair of suns in full array - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 85: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Tortoiseshell hairpins with a pair of pearls - "There's Someone I Think Of" transl. by Burton Watson
A pair of wild parrots startle up - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Takes breath in pairs - Josephine Yu "Passages from the Travel Diary of Noah's Wife"
That pair of doubting eyes - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #4" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
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Every peril paired with its opposite - Mary Jo Bang "The Raven Feeds Reynard"
Fractious as a pair of cowboy boots - Erin Belieu "As for the Heart"
Many a pair that yet cannot agree - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
The sun and moon to pair his brilliance - "The Ch'u Tz'u: The Lord Among the Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson
Two dragons between a pair of river serpents - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Lord of the River" transl. by Burton Watson
Four dividing into two scavenging pairs - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
A pair of shears cutting countrysides into shapes - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"
With a pairing incremental as this winter's passing - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Thought has a pair of dauntless wings - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"
Wear through seven pairs of shoes - Theodora Goss "Seven Shoes"
A pair of sevens standing in the rain - Conrad Hilberry "The Double Flail or Double Hook"
A pair of stars, faint pins of light - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
And our paired silhouettes are waiting for us - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Time is a pair of lungs laboring - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
And a pair of moments after - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Bean-Stalk"
Eight pairs of ostriches in harness - Marianne Moore "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'"
A pair of painstakingly clean hands - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
A pair of empty swing sets - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"
With nothing but the right pair of hands - Ollie Schminkey "The First Rule of Buoyancy"
A pair of suns in full array - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 85: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Tortoiseshell hairpins with a pair of pearls - "There's Someone I Think Of" transl. by Burton Watson
A pair of wild parrots startle up - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Takes breath in pairs - Josephine Yu "Passages from the Travel Diary of Noah's Wife"
That pair of doubting eyes - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #4" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
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