Potential Titles: Perch

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Torn from the perch of their comfort - Hanif Abdurraqib "It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off"

Build a perch for the goldfinch - Rachel Barenblat "Open"

Only the robin perched on a thorn - Walter de la Mare "Down-Adown-Derry"

Perched all upon a sweetbriar bush - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"

Three crows perched on the dresser - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"

A plywood squirrel perched on cement - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"

An errant eagle perched in the branches above - Kendall Evans "This, a Kind of Prayer"

Perching on the sceptred hand - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

To perch atop the moon - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria de Lourdes Song of Plenty"

A cage of wizard wood with perch of ebony - Ruth Manning-Sanders "Come Wary One"

A swinging dream perched on a stile - Charlotte Mew "On the Road to the Sea"

While our toes perch in this century - Maggie Nelson "Sleepy Demise of the Season"

Perched with robins and jays atop the greenery - Andre F. Peltier "When War Broke Out"

Perched on the lip of a bubbling cauldron - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

moonlight perched above the town - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"

Globe perched on translucent needles - Emily Skillings "Tenant"

A solitary sparrow perched on sadness - Richard Solomon "Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion"

Scared the river eels and perches - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

Moons perched on dark spires - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

Perches on trampled cat tail reeds - Ray Young Bear "For You, a Handful of the Greatest Gift"


Window-perched cats and foraging chipmunks - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"


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